Generally, coral gobies, unlike the rest of the family Gobiidae, are not burrowers, but instead prefer to inhabit the branches of certain Acropora or similar hard corals.

As a group, they have a general fusiform shape and are small, most ranging about 6 cm, though there are exceptions.

Gobiodon burdigalicus from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of southwestern India is the first fossil (otoliths) record of this genus.

[1] Accepted species in this genus include:

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