Gobionidae

{{Short description|Family of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Oligocene|present}}

| image = Witvingrondel10-7.JPG

| image_caption = A white-finned gudgeon (Romanogobio belingi)

| taxon = Gobionidae

| authority = Bleeker, 1863

}}

Gobioninae is a monophyletic{{cite journal | title = Phylogeny of the gudgeons (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Gobioninae) | date = 2011 | pmid = 21672635 | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.022 | volume = 61 | journal = Mol Phylogenet Evol | pages = 103–24 | last1 = Tang | first1 = KL | last2 = Agnew | first2 = MK | last3 = Chen | first3 = WJ | last4 = Vincent Hirt | first4 = M | last5 = Raley | first5 = ME | last6 = Sado | first6 = T | last7 = Schneider | first7 = LM | last8 = Yang | first8 = L | last9 = Bart | first9 = HL | last10 = He | first10 = S | last11 = Liu | first11 = H | last12 = Miya | first12 = M | last13 = Saitoh | first13 = K | last14 = Simons | first14 = AM | last15 = Wood | first15 = RM | last16 = Mayden | first16 = RL | issue = 1 | s2cid = 13340512 | url = http://ir.ihb.ac.cn/bitstream/342005/16245/1/Phylogeny%20of%20the%20gudgeons%20%28Teleostei%20Cyprinidae%20Gobioninae%29.pdf | access-date = 2019-09-29 | archive-date = 2017-08-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170810172351/http://ir.ihb.ac.cn/bitstream/342005/16245/1/Phylogeny%20of%20the%20gudgeons%20%28Teleostei%20Cyprinidae%20Gobioninae%29.pdf | url-status = dead }} family of Eurasian cyprinoid fishes. This is a species rich clade which, as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae was divided into five tribes: Gobionini, Pseudogobionini, Hemibarbini, Coreiini, and Sarcocheilichthyini. These subdivisions are not recognised by Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.{{Cof family|family=Gobionidae|access-date=20 February 2025}}

To adapt to different masticatory operations, members of the Gobioninae developed various types of pharyngeal bones and teeth; some have intermediate pharyngeal bones with rows of diverse teeth (conical, compressed, and coarsely compressed), others have broad pharyngeal bones with a single row of molar teeth.{{cite web | url = http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/58606552/evolution-pharyngeal-bones-teeth-gobioninae-fishes-teleostei-cyprinidae-analyzed-phylogenetic-comparative-methods| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195207/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/58606552/evolution-pharyngeal-bones-teeth-gobioninae-fishes-teleostei-cyprinidae-analyzed-phylogenetic-comparative-methods| url-status = dead| archive-date = 2013-10-29| title = The evolution of pharyngeal bones and teeth in Gobioninae fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) analyzed with phylogenetic comparative methods|publisher =Hydrobiologia|author1=Yu Zeng |author2=Huanzhang Liu |date=April 2011| access-date = 27 October 2013}} Some Gobioninae have narrow pharyngeal bones with a row of extremely compressed teeth.