Gobiiformes

Translingual

Etymology

Gobius +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Gobiiformes

1. A taxonomic order within the class Teleostei – small, mainly marine, mainly benthic or sand-burrowing fish.

Synonyms

• (order): Gobioidei - suborder

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Osteichthyes – superclass; Actinopterygii – superclass; Actinopteri – class; Neopterygii – subclass; Teleostei – infraclass

Hyponyms

• (order): Eleotridae (sleeper gobies), Gobiidae (gobies), Kraemeriidae (sandfishes), Microdesmidae (wormfishes and dartfishes), Odontobutidae (freshwater sleepers), Rhyacichthyidae (loach gobies), Schindleriidae, Thalasseleotrididae, Xenisthmidae (wrigglers) - families

References

• Gobiiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gobiiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Gobiiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gobioidei at World Register of Marine Species
• Gobiiformes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• “Gobiiformes”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI