Gobionellinae
The Gobionellinae are a subfamily of fish which was formerly classified in the family Gobiidae, the gobies, but the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World classifies the subfamily as part of the family Oxudercidae. Members of Gobionellinae mostly inhabit estuarine and freshwater habitats; the main exception is the genus Gnatholepis, which live with corals in marine environments. The subfamily is distributed in tropical and temperate regions around the world with the exception of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Ponto-Caspian region.
Fossil records are known from the Middle Miocene of Europe.
It includes around 542 species and 76 genera:
Genera
Acanthogobius Gill, 1869Amblychaeturichthys Bleeker, 1874Astrabe Jordan & Snyder, 1901Awaouichthys Chatterjee & Mishra, 2013Awaous Valenciennes, 1837Brachygobius Bleeker, 1874Buenia Iljin, 1930Caecogobius Berti & Ercolini 1991Chaenogobius Gill, 1859Chaeturichthys Richardson, 1844Chlamydogobius Whitley, 1930Clariger Jordan & Snyder, 1901Clevelandia Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1888Crystallogobius Gill, 1863Ctenogobius Gill, 1858Deltentosteus Gill, 1863Economidichthys Bianco, Bullock, Miller & Roubal, 1987Eucyclogobius Gill, 1862Eugnathogobius H.M. Smith, 1931Eutaeniichthys Jordan & Snyder, 1901Evermannia Jordan, 1895Evorthodus Gill, 1859Gillichthys Cooper, 1864Gnatholepis Bleeker, 1874Gobioides Lacepède, 1800Gobionellus Girard, 1858Gobiopterus Bleeker, 1874Gymnogobius Gill, 1863Hemigobius Bleeker, 1874Hyrcanogobius Iljin, 1928Ilogton Endruweit, 2024Ilypnus Jordan & Evermann, 1896Inu Snyder, 1909Knipowitschia Iljin, 1927Lebetus Winther, 1877Lepidogobius Gill, 1859Lethops Hubbs, 1926Leucopsarion Hilgendorf, 1880Luciogobius Gill, 1859Mistichthys H.M. Smith, 1902Mugilogobius Smitt, 1900Nesogobius Whitley, 1929Ninnigobius Whitley, 1951Oligolepis Bleeker, 1874Orsinigobius Gandolfi, Marconato & Torricelli, 1986Oxyurichthys Bleeker, 1857Paedogobius Iwata, S. Hosoya & Larson, 2001Pandaka Herre, 1927Papuligobius I. S. Chen & Kottelat, 2003Paragobiopsis Koumans, 1941Parawaous Watson, 1993Polyspondylogobius Kimura & Wu, 1994Pomatoschistus Gill, 1863Pseudaphya Iljin, 1930Pseudogobiopsis Bleeker, 1875Pseudogobius Popta, 1922Pterogobius Gill, 1863Quietula Jordan & Evermann, 1895Redigobius Herre, 1927Reptiliceps Prokofiev, 2007Rhinogobius Gill, 1859Sagamia Jordan & Snyder, 1901Schismatogobius de Beaufort, 1912Siphonogobius Shibukawa & Iwata, 1998Speleogobius Zander & Jelinek, 1976Stenogobius Bleeker, 1874Stigmatogobius Bleeker, 1874Suruga Jordan & Snyder, 1901Tamanka Herre, 1927Tasmanogobius Scott, 1935Tomiyamia Endruweit, 2024Triaenopogon Bleeker, 1874Tridentiger Gill, 1859Typhlogobius Steindachner, 1879Wuhanlinigobius Huang, Jaafar & Chen, 2014The following fossil genera are also known:
- †Alienagobius Reichenbacher & Bannikov, 2025
- †Cryptograciles Reichenbacher & Bannikov, 2025
- †Hesperichthys Schwarzhans et al., 2017