Canthonella gomezi

{{Short description|Species of beetle}}

{{Taxobox

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Vaz-de-Mello, F. |author2=Larsen, T. |author3=Silva, F. |author4=Favila, M. |author5=Spector, S. |author6=Gill, B. |date=2013 |title=Canthonella gomezi |volume=2013 |page=e.T137934A533544 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T137934A533544.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Coleoptera

| familia = Scarabaeidae

| genus = Canthonella

| species = C. gomezi

| binomial = Canthonella gomezi

| binomial_authority = (Halffter & Martinez, 1968)

}}

Canthonella gomezi is a species of beetle in family Scarabaeidae. It is endemic to Venezuela, and is restricted to cloud forest habitat in the Cordillera Central.{{cite journal|last1=Ferrer‐Paris|first1=José R.|last2=Rodríguez|first2=Jon Paul|last3=Sánchez‐Mercado|first3=Ada|title=Optimización del muestreo de invertebrados tropicales: Un ejemplo con escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) en Venezuela|journal=Revista de Biología Tropical|date=2013|volume=61|issue=1|pages=89–100|doi=10.15517/rbt.v61i1.10941|url=https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/download/10941/10321|doi-access=free}}

It is included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and the Venezuelan Red Book of Fauna.