Abstract
Species of the tropical gobiid genus Gnatholepis have been misidentified and confused for many years. A gobionelline,Gnatholepis is the only strictly marine genus of that subfamily. Gnatholepis was reviewed from a morphological view-point, as recent publications distinguishing species (morphologically and genetically) have not always been in agreement.The genus is considered to include nine described species, with two distinctive sister-taxa (G. argus and G. gymnocara)and seven less easily distinguished taxa: one species-group formed by G. anjerensis, G. knighti, G. ophthalmotaenia andG. yoshinoi and another species-group of G. cauerensis, G. pascuensis and G. thompsoni. Of these, the G. cauerensis spe-cies-group is the most complex, with several subspecies-names available. There is also a distinctive taxon from the Red Sea that represents a new species, described herein.References
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