Gobiodon
Gobiodon is a genus of gobies also known as coral gobies or "clown gobies". Unlike the rest of the family Gobiidae, coral gobies, are not burrowers, instead they inhabit the branches of Acropora or similar hard corals.
As a group, they are small, most ranging about 6 cm, with exceptions. They have a fusiform shape.
Gobiodon burdigalicus from the Burdigalian of southwestern India is the first fossil record of this genus.
Species
Accepted species in this genus include:Gobiodon acicularis Harold & R. Winterbottom, 1995 Gobiodon albofasciatus Sawada & R. Arai, 1972 Gobiodon aoyagii Shibukawa, T. Suzuki & Aizawa, 2013Gobiodon ater Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013 Gobiodon atrangulatus Garman, 1903Gobiodon axillaris De Vis, 1884Gobiodon bicalvolineatus Hildebrandt, C. A., Froehlich, C. Y. M., Brodnicke, O. B., Klanten, O. S., Møller, P. R., & Wong, M. Y. L., 2024Gobiodon bilineatus Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013 Gobiodon brochus Harold & R. Winterbottom, 1999Gobiodon ceramensis Gobiodon citrinus Gobiodon cobenjaminsis Gobiodon fulvus Herre, 1927Gobiodon fuscoruber Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013 Gobiodon heterospilos Bleeker, 1856Gobiodon histrio Gobiodon irregularis Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013 Gobiodon micropus Günther, 1861Gobiodon multilineatus H. L. Wu, 1979Gobiodon oculolineatus H. L. Wu, 1979Gobiodon okinawae Sawada, R. Arai & T. Abe, 1972 Gobiodon prolixus R. Winterbottom & Harold, 2005Gobiodon quinquestrigatus Gobiodon reticulatus Playfair, 1867 Gobiodon rivulatus Gobiodon spilophthalmus Fowler, 1944Gobiodon winterbottomi T. Suzuki, Ko. Yano & Senou, 2012Gobiodon burdigalicus Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022