Chestnut goby

Chestnut goby
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Gobiinae
Genus: Chromogobius
Species: Chestnut goby
Binomial name
Chromogobius quadrivittatus
(Steindachner, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Chromogobius kryzanowskii (Ptchelina, 1939)
  • Gobius depressus (Kolombatovic, 1891)
  • Gobius depressus quadrivittata (Steindachner, 1863)
  • Gobius paganellus var. capito, misapplied name
  • Gobius planiceps (Bellotti, 1879)
  • Gobius quadrivittatus (Steindachner, 1863)
  • Relictogobius kryzhanovskii (Ptchelina, 1939)

The Chestnut goby, or banded goby (Chromogobius quadrivittatus) is a species of goby found in the Mediterranean and Black Sea[1]. In the Black Sea it is found in the Gulf of Varna, saline lagoons near Abrau, also near Novorossiysk and Sochi[2]. Marine coastal / estuarine species, reaches a length of 6.6 cm. Mediterranean immigrant in the Black Sea fauna; prefers the salinity about 20‰.

References

  1. ^ Chromogobius quadrivittatus at FishBase
  2. ^ Smirnov A.I. (1986) Perch-likes (gobiids), scorpionfishes, flatfishes, clingfishes, anglerfishes [in:] Fauna of Ukraine, Vol. 8, No 5, Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 320 pp. (in Russian)