Black Sea tadpole-goby

Black Sea tadpole-goby
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Benthophilinae
Genus: Benthophilus
Species: B. nudus
Binomial name
Benthophilus nudus
Berg, 1898
Synonyms
  • Benthophilus macrocephalus var. nudus
  • Benthophilus macrocephalus ponticus

Black Sea tadpole-goby (Benthophilus nudus) is a fish of Gobiidae family. Widespread in 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 Kiev, Southern Bug[1].

References

  1. ^ 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]

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