Marine tubenose goby

Marine tubenose goby

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Gobioidei
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Benthophilinae
Genus:	Proterorhinus
Species:	P. marmoratus
Binomial name
*Proterorhinus marmoratus* (Pallas, 1814)

The range of the Marine Tubenose goby
Synonyms
Gobius quadricapillus Pallas, 1814 Gobius blennioides Kessler, 1877 Gobius macropterus Nordmann, 1840 Gobius marmoratus Pallas, 1814 Gobius marmoratus nasalis pontica Smitt, 1899

The marine tubenose goby (Proterorhinus marmoratus) is a brackish-water species of fish in the Gobiidae family. It is widely distributed in desalinated parts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, near the coasts of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine.

During the long period this fish was considered as only representative of the genus Proterorhinus. But it was redescribed as several cryptic species based on the molecular analysis^[1]. Now P. marmoratus is considered only for marine and brackish waters of the Black Sea basin. All cases of registrations of P. marmoratus in fresh waters mean the western tubenose goby P. semilunaris in deed.

References

^ Stepien, Carol A.; Tumeo, Mark A. (2006). "Invasion Genetics of Ponto-Caspian Gobies in the Great Lakes: A ‘Cryptic’ Species, Absence of Founder Effects, and Comparative Risk Analysis". Biological Invasions 8: 61. doi:10.1007/s10530-005-0237-x.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Proterorhinus marmoratus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.
Proterorhinus marmoratus - Fishes of waters of Ukraine
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