''Gonostoma'' is a genus of

bristlemouth The Gonostomatidae are a family of mesopelagic marine fish, commonly named bristlemouths, lightfishes, or anglemouths. It is a relatively small family, containing only eight known genera and 32 species. However, bristlemouths make up for their l ...

Species

There are three extant species recognized in this genus: * '' Gonostoma atlanticum''

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, 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

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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.

References

Gonostomatidae Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Marine fish genera {{Stomiiformes-stub