Lophogobius cyprinoides (Pallas, 1770)

Schwarzhans, Werner W. & Aguilera, Orangel A., 2024, Otoliths of the Gobiidae from the Neogene of tropical America, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (13) 143 (1), pp. 1-129 : 93

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scientific name	Lophogobius cyprinoides (Pallas, 1770)
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Lophogobius cyprinoides (Pallas, 1770) View in CoL

Figure 40i–n View Fig

Material 11 specimens: 3 specimens Zanclean, Cubagua FM , Venezuela, 1 specimen PPP 2549 ( NMB P15818 View Materials ) , 2 specimens PPP 2556 . 8 specimens Calabrian , Cumaná FM, Venzuela, PPP 3038 (figured specimens NMB P15814-17 View Materials ) .

Discussion Otoliths of Lophogobius cyptinoides show pronounced preventral and postdorsal projections and do not differ significantly from certain species in the genus Coryphopterus such as C. thrix ( Fig. 39e View Fig ) or C. urospilus

( Fig. 39f View Fig ). Lophogobius otoliths tend to have a smaller sulcus and lower ostial lobe than species of Coryphopterus with the exception of C. curasub ( Fig. 39b View Fig ). Te fossil specimens ( Fig. 40j–n View Fig ) appear to have a higher postdorsal rim than the figured extant specimen ( Fig. 40i View Fig ). However, the only available extant specimen has a slightly damaged dorsal rim because of formalin erosional effects and therefore this could be a misleading impression.