''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
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; 22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ult ...
, 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
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, in what is today Romania, at the time when the country was part of the
Paratethys
The Paratethys sea, Paratethys ocean, Paratethys realm or just Paratethys (meaning "beside Tethys"), was a large shallow inland sea that covered much of mainland Europe and parts of western Asia during the middle to late Cenozoic, from the lat ...
sea.
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References
Gonostomatidae
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Marine fish genera
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