# Philypnodon

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| image = FMIB 45730 Philypnodon grandiceps.jpeg
| image_caption = ''Philypnodon grandiceps''
| taxon = Philypnodon
| authority = [Bleeker](/source/Pieter_Bleeker), 1874
| type_species = ''[Eleotris nudiceps](/source/Philypnodon_grandiceps)''
| type_species_authority = [Castelnau](/source/Francis_de_Laporte_de_Castelnau), 1872<ref name=CoF>{{cite web |url=http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=9375 |title=Catalog of Fishes |author=Eschmeyer, W. N. and R. Fricke (eds) |date=1 March 2016 |publisher=California Academy of Sciences |accessdate=22 March 2016}}</ref>
}}

'''''Philypnodon''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of fishes in the family [Eleotridae](/source/Eleotridae) [endemic](/source/endemism) to [Australia](/source/Australia) and the coastal waters around it.

==Species==
Two species in this genus are recognized,<ref name=CoF/><ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Philypnodon| month = January | year = 2016}}</ref> though molecular studies indicate another undescribed species similar to the dwarf flathead gudgeon from the [Lang Lang River](/source/Lang_Lang_River) in Victoria.<ref name=thacker>{{cite journal |author1=Thacker, Christine E. |author2=Unmack, Peter J. |author3=Matsui, Lauren |author4=Duong Phil |author5=Huang, Eric |year=2008 |title=Phylogeography of ''Philypnodon'' species (Teleostei: Eleotridae) across south-eastern Australia: testing patterns of connectivity across drainage divides and among coastal rivers |journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=95 |pages=175–92 |url=http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/ichthyology/pdf/Thackeretal2008BJLS.pdf |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01000.x |s2cid=85865731 |archive-date=2016-07-28 |access-date=2015-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160728181204/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/ichthyology/pdf/Thackeretal2008BJLS.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''[Philypnodon grandiceps](/source/Philypnodon_grandiceps)'' <small>([J. L. G. Krefft](/source/Gerard_Krefft), 1864)</small> (flathead gudgeon)
* ''[Philypnodon macrostomus](/source/Philypnodon_macrostomus)'' <small>[Hoese](/source/Douglass_Fielding_Hoese) & [Reader](/source/Sally_Reader), 2006</small> (dwarf flathead gudgeon)

==References==
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Category:Eleotridae
Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker

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