Gonostoma Explained

Gonostoma is a genus of bristlemouths.

Species

There are three extant species recognized in this genus:

• Gonostoma atlanticum Norman, 1930 (Atlantic fangjaw)
• Gonostoma denudatum Rafinesque, 1810
• Gonostoma elongatum Günther, 1878 (Elongated bristlemouth fish)

Moreover, there is the fossil species

• Gonostoma dracula Grădianu et al., 2017

G. dracula lived in the Oligocene, in what is today Romania, at the time when the country was part of the Paratethys sea.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Ionuţ Grădianu . Tomáš Přikryl . Růžena Gregorová . Antony S. Harold . 2017 . †Gonostoma dracula sp. nov. (Teleostei, Gonostomatidae) from the Oligocene deposits of the Central Paratethys (Romania): earliest occurrence of the modern bristlemouths . Bulletin of Geosciences . 92 . 3 . 323–336 . 10.3140/bull.geosci.1683 .