Black Sea tadpole-goby

Black Sea tadpole-goby
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Benthophilus
Species:
B. nudus
Binomial name
Benthophilus nudus
Berg, 1898
The range of the Black Sea tadpole-goby
Synonyms
  • Benthophilus macrocephalus nudus L. S. Berg, 1898
  • Benthophilus macrocephalus ponticus L. S. Berg, 1916

The Black Sea tadpole-goby (Benthophilus nudus) is a species of goby native to the basin of the Black Sea. Found in the Gulf of Tendra and limans of the north-western Black Sea, lakes of the Danube Delta. In the rivers of the Black Sea basin: Danube up to Iron Gate dam, Dniester up to Tighina, Dnieper up to Kyiv, Southern Bug.[2] This species is mostly a denizen of fresh and slightly brackish bodies of water, preferring rivers and deltas, limans and coastal lakes. This fish can reach a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL.[3]

References

  1. ^ Freyhof, J. (2011). "Benthophilus nudus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T135604A4158452. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135604A4158452.en.
  2. ^ Boldyrev V.S., Bogutskaya N.G. (2007) Revision of the tadpole-gobie of the genus Benthophilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters, 18(1): 31–96.[1] Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Benthophilus nudus". FishBase. April 2013 version.