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''Mataichthys'' is an extinct genus of sleeper gobies which lived in what is now New Zealand in the early Miocene period. It was described by Werner Schwarzhans, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jennifer P. Worthy and Trevor H. Worthy in 2012, and contains the species ''Mataichthys bictenatus'', ''Mataichthys procerus'', ''Mataichthys rhinoceros'', and ''Mataichthys taurinus''.


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Eleotridae Prehistoric perciform genera Miocene fish Prehistoric vertebrates of Oceania Fish of New Zealand {{Eleotridae-stub