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Brandl, S. J., Goatley, C. H. R., Bellwood, D. R., & Tornabene, L. (2018). The hidden half: Ecology and evolution of cryptobenthic fishes on coral reefs. *Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society*, **93**(4), 1846–1873. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12423

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Gaudant, J. (1993). L'ichthyofaune lacustre du Miocène d'Etili (Anatolie occidentale, Turquie): un réexamen. *Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Monatshefte*, 1993(6), 335–344. https://doi.org/10.1127/ njgpm/1993/1993/335

Gaudant, J., & Quayle, W. J. (1988). New palaeontological studies on the Chapelcorner fish bed (Upper Eocene, Isle of Wight). *Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology*, **44**(1), 15–39.

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Gierl, C., Dohrmann, M., Keith, P., Humphreys, W., Esmaeili, H. R., Vukić, J., Sanda, R., & Reichenbacher, B. (2022). An integrative phylogenetic approach for inferring relationships of fossil gobioids (Teleostei: Gobiiformes). *PloS One*, **17**(7), e0271121. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271121

Gierl, C., Liebl, D., Sanda, R., Vukic, J., Esmaeili, H. R., & Reichenbacher, B. (2018). What can goby otolith morphology tell us? *Cybium*, **42**(4), 349–363.

Gierl, C., & Reichenbacher, B. (2015). A new fossil genus of Gobiiformes from the Miocene characterized by a mosaic set of characters. *Copeia*, **103**(4), 792–805. https:// doi.org/10.1643/CI-14-146

Gierl, C., & Reichenbacher, B. (2017). Revision of so-called *Pomatoschistus* (Gobiiformes, Teleostei) from the late Eocene and early Oligocene. *Palaeontologia Electronica*, **20.2.33A**, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.26879/721

Gierl, C., Reichenbacher, B., Gaudant, J., Erpenbeck, D., & Pharisat, A. (2013). An extraordinary gobioid fish fossil from Southern France. *PloS One*, **8**(5), e64117. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064117

Gill, A. C., & Mooi, R. D. (2012). Thalasseleotrididae, new family of marine gobioid fishes from New Zealand and temperate Australia, with a revised definition of its sister taxon, the Gobiidae (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha). *Zootaxa*, **3266**(1), 41–52. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3266.1.3

Gill, T. N. (1863). Descriptions of the gobioid genera of the western coast of temperate North America. *Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia*, **15**, 262–267.

Goatley, C. H. R., & Tornabene, L. (2022). *Tempestichthys bettyae*, a new genus and species of ocean sleeper (Gobiiformes, Thalasseleotrididae) from the central Coral Sea. *Systematics and Biodiversity*, **20**(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2022.2090633

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Goloboff, P. A., & Catalano, S. A. (2016). TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics. *Cladistics: The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society*, **32**(3), 221–238. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12160

Goloboff, P. A., Torres, A., & Arias, J. S. (2018). Weighted parsimony outperforms other methods of phylogenetic inference under models appropriate for morphology. *Cladistics: The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society*, **34**(4), 407–437. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12205

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Guindon, S., Dufayard, J.-F., Lefort, V., Anisimova, M., Hordijk, W., & Gascuel, O. (2010). New algorithms and
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Brandl, S. J., Goatley, C. H. R., Bellwood, D. R., & Tornabene, L. (2018). The hidden half: Ecology and evolution of cryptobenthic fishes on coral reefs. *Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society*, **93**(4), 1846–1873. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12423

Churchill, G. A., von Haeseler, A., & Navidi, W. C. (1992). Sample size for a phylogenetic inference. *Molecular Biology and Evolution*, **9**(4), 753–769.

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Edgar, R. C. (2004). MUSCLE: Multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. *Nucleic Acids Research*, **32**(5), 1792–1797. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh340

Fabricius, J. C. (1779). *Reise nach Norwegen mit Bemerkungen aus der Naturhistorie und Oekonomie*. Carl Ernest Bohn.

Felsenstein, J. (1985). Confidence limits on phylogenies: An approach using the bootstrap. *Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution*, **39**(4), 783–791. https://doi.org/10.2307/2408678

Fricke, R. (1983). A method of counting caudal fin rays of actinopterygian fishes. *Braunschweiger Naturkundliche Schriften*, 1(4), 729–733.

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N., & Fong, J. D. (2023). *Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: Genera/species by family/ subfamily*. Retrieved January 17, 2023, from https:// research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/ SpeciesByFamily.asp

Froese, R., & Pauly, D. (2023). *FishBase*. Retrieved December 2023, from https://fishbase.org.au/v4

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Gaudant, J. (1993). L'ichthyofaune lacustre du Miocène d'Etili (Anatolie occidentale, Turquie): un réexamen. *Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Monatshefte*, 1993(6), 335–344. https://doi.org/10.1127/ njgpm/1993/1993/335

Gaudant, J., & Quayle, W. J. (1988). New palaeontological studies on the Chapelcorner fish bed (Upper Eocene, Isle of Wight). *Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology*, **44**(1), 15–39.

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Gierl, C., Dohrmann, M., Keith, P., Humphreys, W., Esmaeili, H. R., Vukić, J., Sanda, R., & Reichenbacher, B. (2022). An integrative phylogenetic approach for inferring relationships of fossil gobioids (Teleostei: Gobiiformes). *PloS One*, **17**(7), e0271121. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271121

Gierl, C., Liebl, D., Sanda, R., Vukic, J., Esmaeili, H. R., & Reichenbacher, B. (2018). What can goby otolith morphology tell us? *Cybium*, **42**(4), 349–363.

Gierl, C., & Reichenbacher, B. (2015). A new fossil genus of Gobiiformes from the Miocene characterized by a mosaic set of characters. *Copeia*, **103**(4), 792–805. https:// doi.org/10.1643/CI-14-146

Gierl, C., & Reichenbacher, B. (2017). Revision of so-called *Pomatoschistus* (Gobiiformes, Teleostei) from the late Eocene and early Oligocene. *Palaeontologia Electronica*, **20.2.33A**, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.26879/721

Gierl, C., Reichenbacher, B., Gaudant, J., Erpenbeck, D., & Pharisat, A. (2013). An extraordinary gobioid fish fossil from Southern France. *PloS One*, **8**(5), e64117. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064117

Gill, A. C., & Mooi, R. D. (2012). Thalasseleotrididae, new family of marine gobioid fishes from New Zealand and temperate Australia, with a revised definition of its sister taxon, the Gobiidae (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha). *Zootaxa*, **3266**(1), 41–52. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3266.1.3

Gill, T. N. (1863). Descriptions of the gobioid genera of the western coast of temperate North America. *Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia*, **15**, 262–267.

Goatley, C. H. R., & Tornabene, L. (2022). *Tempestichthys bettyae*, a new genus and species of ocean sleeper (Gobiiformes, Thalasseleotrididae) from the central Coral Sea. *Systematics and Biodiversity*, **20**(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2022.2090633

Göktaş, F., & Ünay, E. (2000). *The stratigraphy of the NW parts of the Akhisar (Manisa) Neogene basin*. International Earth Sciences Colloquium on the Aegean Region (IESCA-2000), Izmir.

Goloboff, P. A. (1993). Estimating character weights during tree search. *Cladistics: The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society*, **9**(1), 83–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.1993.tb00209.x

Goloboff, P. A., & Catalano, S. A. (2016). TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics. *Cladistics: The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society*, **32**(3), 221–238. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12160

Goloboff, P. A., Torres, A., & Arias, J. S. (2018). Weighted parsimony outperforms other methods of phylogenetic inference under models appropriate for morphology. *Cladistics: The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society*, **34**(4), 407–437. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12205

Gosline, W. A. (1955). The osteology and relationships of certain gobioid fishes, with particular reference to the genera *Kraemia* and *Microdesmus*. *Pacific Science*, **9**, 158–170.

Gouy, M., Guindon, S., & Gascuel, O. (2010). SeaView version 4: A multiplatform graphical user interface for sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree building. *Molecular Biology and Evolution*, **27**(2), 221–224. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msp259

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