Tubenose goby

Proterorhinus

Proterorhinus marmoratus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Gobioidei
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Benthophilinae
Genus:	Proterorhinus Smitt, 1900
Type species
Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas, 1814)

Proterorhinus is a genus of fish in the Gobiidae family. This genus is represented by five species:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Two of these species inhabit the brackish waters of the Black Sea (Proterorhinus marmoratus) and the southern Caspian Sea (P. nasalis). The western (freshwater) tubenose goby P. semilunaris is native to the fresh waters of the Black Sea basin.

References

^ Stepien C.A., Tumeo M.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: 61–78.[1]
^ Freyhof J., Naseka A.M. (2007) Proterorhinus tataricus, a new tubenose goby from Crimea, Ukraine (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 18(4): 325–334.[2]
^ Neilson M.E., Stepien C.A. (2009) Evolution and phylogeography of the tubenose goby genus Proterorhinus (Gobiidae: Teleostei): evidence for new cryptic species. Biol. J. Linnean Soc., 96: 664–684.[3]

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