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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Yellow clown goby.jpg
| image_caption = Okinawa goby ''(G. okinawae)''
| taxon = Gobiodon
| authority = [[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1856
| type_species = ''Gobiodon heterospilos''
| type_species_authority = Bleeker, 1856
| synonyms =
* ''Ellerya'' <small>[[Francis de Laporte de Castelnau|Castelnau]], 1873</small>
* ''Pseudogobiodon'' <small>Bleeker, 1874</small>
}}
'''''Gobiodon''''' is a [[genus]] of [[gobies]] also known as '''coral gobies''' or '''"clown gobies"''' (which can also mean the related genus ''[[Microgobius]]'').  Generally, coral gobies, unlike the rest of the family Gobiidae, are not burrowers, but instead prefer to inhabit the branches of certain ''[[Acropora]]'' or similar hard corals.
As a group, they have a general [[wikt:fusiform|fusiform]] shape and are small, most ranging about 6 cm, though there are exceptions.
''Gobiodon burdigalicus'' from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of southwestern India is the first fossil (otoliths) record of this genus.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Carolin |first=Nora |last2=Bajpai |first2=Sunil |last3=Maurya |first3=Abhayanand Singh |last4=Schwarzhans |first4=Werner |year=2022 |title=New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India |journal=PalZ |doi=10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9}}</ref>
==Species==
Accepted species in this genus include:
* ''[[Gobiodon acicularis]]'' <small>Harold & R. Winterbottom, 1995</small> (Needlespine coral goby)
* ''[[Gobiodon albofasciatus]]'' <small>Sawada & R. Arai, 1972</small> (Whitelined coral goby)
* ''[[Gobiodon aoyagii]]'' <small>Shibukawa, T. Suzuki & Aizawa, 2013</small><ref name=Shibukawa2013>Shibukawa, K., Suzuki, T. & Aizawa, M. (2013): ''Gobiodon aoyagii'', a New Coral Goby (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae, Gobiinae) from the West Pacific, with Redescription of a Similarly colored Congener ''Gobiodon erythrospilus'' Bleeker, 1875.  ''Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A, 39 (3): 143-165.''</ref>
* ''[[Gobiodon ater]]'' <small>Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013</small> (Black coralgoby)<ref name=Herler2013>Herler, J., Bogorodsky, S.V. & Suzuki, T. (2013): [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03709p329.pdf Four new species of coral gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiodon), with comments on their relationships within the genus.]  ''Zootaxa, 3709 (4): 301–329.''</ref>
* ''[[Gobiodon atrangulatus]]'' <small>[[Samuel Garman|Garman]], 1903</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon axillaris]]'' <small>[[Charles Walter De Vis|De Vis]], 1884</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon bilineatus]]'' <small>Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013</small> (Two-lined coralgoby)<ref name=Herler2013/>
* ''[[Gobiodon brochus]]'' <small>Harold & R. Winterbottom, 1999</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon ceramensis]]'' <small>([[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1853)</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon citrinus]]'' <small>([[Eduard Rüppell|Rüppell]], 1838)</small> (Poison goby)
* ''[[Gobiodon fulvus]]'' <small>[[Albert William Herre|Herre]], 1927</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon fuscoruber]]'' <small>Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013</small> (Brown-red coralgoby)<ref name=Herler2013/>
* ''[[Gobiodon heterospilos]]'' <small>[[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1856</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon histrio]]'' <small>([[Achille Valenciennes|Valenciennes]], 1837)</small> (Broad-barred goby)
* ''[[Gobiodon irregularis]]'' <small>Herler, Bogorodsky & T. Suzuki, 2013</small> (Rufous coralgoby)<ref name=Herler2013/>
* ''[[Gobiodon micropus]]'' <small>[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1861</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon multilineatus]]'' <small>H. L. Wu, 1979</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon oculolineatus]]'' <small>H. L. Wu, 1979</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon okinawae]]'' <small>Sawada, R. Arai & [[Tokiharu Abe|T. Abe]], 1972</small> (Okinawa goby)
* ''[[Gobiodon prolixus]]'' <small>R. Winterbottom & Harold, 2005</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon quinquestrigatus]]'' <small>([[Achille Valenciennes|Valenciennes]], 1837)</small> (Five-lined coral goby)
* ''[[Gobiodon reticulatus]]'' <small>[[Robert Lambert Playfair|Playfair]] ([[:fr:Robert Lambert Playfair|fr]]), 1867</small> (Reticulate goby)
* ''[[Gobiodon rivulatus]]'' <small>([[Eduard Rüppell|Rüppell]], 1830)</small> (Rippled coral goby)
* ''[[Gobiodon spilophthalmus]]'' <small>[[Henry Weed Fowler|Fowler]], 1944</small>
* ''[[Gobiodon winterbottomi]]'' <small>T. Suzuki, Ko. Yano & Senou, 2012</small><ref name=Suzuki2012>Suzuki, T., Yano, K. & Senou, H. (2012): ''Gobiodon winterbottomi'', a New Goby (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae) from Iriomote-jima Island, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.  ''Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, Ser. A., Supplement No. 6: 59–65.''</ref>
* ''[[Gobiodon burdigalicus]]'' Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022<ref name=":0" /> (otolith-based fossil species)
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