Gobius reichenbacherae Schwarzhans, 2014

Schwarzhans, Werner, Klots, Oleksandr, Ryabokon, Tamara & Kovalchuk, Oleksandr, 2022, A rare window into a back-reef fish community from the middle Miocene (late Badenian) Medobory Hills barrier reef in western Ukraine, reconstructed mostly by means of otoliths, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (18) 141 (1), pp. 1-35 : 10

Gobius reichenbacherae Schwarzhans, 2014

Figure 4 f

2014 Gobius reichenbacherae —Schwarzhans: pl. 9, figs. 2–9.

2020a Gobius reichenbacherae Schwarzhans, 2014 — Schwarzhans, Brzobohatý & Radwańska: pl. 4, figs. 6–9 (and references therein).

Material 1 otolith, Shydlivshchyna, NMNHU-P PI 2557.

Discussion Te single, large otolith of 3.3 mm in length is readily recognized by the slightly convex inner face and the flat outer face, the parallelogram-like shape, and the postdorsal projection being markedly bent outward. Te sulcus shows a shoe sole shape with moderate ostial lobe, and the subcaudal iugum is clearly discernable despite erosion. Gobius reichenbacherae was a common and widespread species in the middle Miocene of the Mediterranean and Paratethys and the late Miocene of the Mediterranean ( Schwarzhans et al., 2020a, 2020b).

Figures

Fig. 4 Otoliths of Gobius spp.: a–e Gobius bratishkoi n. sp., a holotype, NMNHU-P PI 2555, Kozatskyi Yar, b–e paratypes, b (reversed) Mlyntsi, NMNHU-P PI 2556,c–e (reversed) Kozatskyi Yar, NMB P1211. f Gobius reichenbacherae Schwarzhans,2014, Shydlivshchyna, NMNHU-P PI 2557 (reversed).g–k Gobius ukrainicus n. sp., j holotype, Shydlivshchyna, NMNHU-P PI 2558, g–i, k paratypes, g, i, k NMNHU-P PI 2560, h (reversed) Mlyntsi, NMNHU-P PI 2559