Gnatholepis
Gnatholepis thompsoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Oxudercidae
Subfamily:	Gobionellinae
Genus:	Gnatholepis Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Gobius anjerensis Bleeker, 1851
Species
10

Gnatholepis is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. It is the only marine genus in the subfamily Gobionellinae, which otherwise includes mostly estuary-dwelling and freshwater fish. Gnatholepis are tropical fish associated with sandy habitat around corals.^[1]

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus.^[1]

Species include:^[2]

• Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker, 1851) (eye-bar goby)

• Gnatholepis argus Larson & Buckle, 2005
• Gnatholepis caudimaculata Larson & Buckle, 2012
• Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker, 1853) (eyebar goby)
• Gnatholepis gymnocara J. E. Randall & D. W. Greenfield, 2001
• Gnatholepis knighti D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1903
• Gnatholepis ophthalmotaenia (Bleeker, 1854)
• Gnatholepis pascuensis J. E. Randall & D. W. Greenfield, 2001 (Rapanui goby)
• Gnatholepis thompsoni D. S. Jordan, 1904 (goldspot goby)
• Gnatholepis yoshinoi T. Suzuki & J. E. Randall, 2009 (Yoshino's goby)

• Randall, John E. and Greenfield, David W. 2001. A preliminary review of the Indo-Pacific Gobiid fishes of the genus Gnatholepis. Ichthyological Bulletin J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 69. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

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