Gobius Linnaeus 1758 (goby)

Actinopteri - Gobiiformes - Gobiidae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Parent taxon: Gobiidae according to E. Steurbaut 1984

See also Agassiz 1835, Agiadi et al. 2020, Arambourg 1927, Argyriou 2022, Böhme 2010, Heinrich 1969, Lin et al. 2017, Nolf and Steurbaut 1983, Schwarzhans 1978, Sepkoski 2002, Steurbaut 1979 and Weiler 1959

Sister taxa: Aboma, Acentrogobius, Caffrogobius, Chromogobius, Crystallogobius, Deltentosteus, Gobiidarum, Gobiodon, Gobiopterus, Gymnogobius, Knipowitschia, Lepidogobius, Lesueurigobius, Lethops, Neogobius, Ortugobius, Pomatoschistus, Ponticola, Rhinogobiops, Thorogobius

Subtaxa: Gobius aidouri Gobius anthonyi Gobius atlanticus Gobius brivesi Gobius bucchichi Gobius cobitis Gobius couchi Gobius crenelatus Gobius dorsolobatus Gobius ehrmanni Gobius geniporus Gobius gracilis Gobius ilovajskii Gobius jarosi Gobius macrurus Gobius niger Gobius obliquus Gobius orientalis Gobius preangerensis Gobius pretiosus Gobius razelaini Gobius tankilensis Gobius tenuis Gobius triangularis Gobius truncatus Gobius vicinalis Gobius weileri Gobius xiphurus

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Type: Gobius niger

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Azerbaijan (1 collection), Greece (7), Italy (3)

• Pliocene of Greece (5), Italy (4)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), the Czech Republic (4), France (4), Germany (6), Greece (1), Italy (17), Mexico (1), Romania (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (3)

• Neogene of Indonesia (3)

Total: 66 collections including 126 occurrences

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