Western tubenose goby

Western tubenose goby
Proterorhinus semilunaris from the Baraboy River, southern Ukraine
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Gobioidei
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Benthophilinae
Genus: Proterorhinus
Species: P. semilunaris
Binomial name
Proterorhinus semilunaris
(Heckel, 1837)
The range of the Western tubenose goby
Synonyms
  • Gobius marmoratus non Pallas, 1814
  • Proterorhinus marmoratus (non Pallas, 1814)
  • Gobius rubromaculatus Kriesch, 1873
  • Gobius semilunaris Heckel, 1837

The western tubenose goby, or freshwater tubenose goby, (Proterorhinus semilunaris) is a limnetic fish species in the Gobiidae family. During the long period this fish was considered as a junior synonym of the tubenose goby, P. marmoratus (Pallas, 1814). But it was redescribed as a different species based on molecular analysis.[1]

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Description

The body and head is flattened laterally. It has 37-46 large, cycloid scales. Its jaws are equal by length. It has an abdominal sucker without explicit blades. It has no swim bladder. The head's width is usually less than its height. Crown, nape, upper edges of operculums, origins of pectoral fins, belly, and posterior part of throat are covered with cycloid scales. Body color is brown to yellowish-gray with 4-5 dark streaks on back, transforming to spots below the middle of the body. Its fins are typically striped. It reaches 12 centimeters (4.7 in). It differs from the closely related marine tubenose goby P. marmoratus by the head length, which constitutes 28-32% of the fish's standard length.[2] The posterior membrane of first dorsal fin reaches the origin of the second dorsal fin. Arterior naris reaches the upper lip or uppermost margin of the lower lip. Eye diameter is 16-21% of head length.

Ecology

Range

The species is native to the fresh waters of the Black Sea basin and the Maritza and Struma rivers draining the Aegean Sea.[3][4] It inhabits the Danube River from the delta to the mouth Morava and in the Danube Lakes, from Prut to Iași. In Bulgaria, it lives in the Kamchiya, Ropotamo, Veleka, and Rezovska rivers. It inhabits the basins of the Dniester and Southern Bug rivers. In the Dnieper river the natural range is from the estuary to Trubizh River. In the basin of the Sea of Azov it lives in the rivers Don, Seversky Donets (to Sviatohirsk), in the estuary of the Kuban River. It also inhabits Lake Neusiedler.

Also it is mentioned as non-indigenous in the upper streams of the Danube river[5][6][7], the Dnieper river [8][9], the Rhine-Main system (North Sea basin)[10][11][12][13], the Vistula[14], and the Laurentian Great Lakes.[15] During the period of 2008-2010, this species was registered in the Meuse River on the border between Belgium and Netherlands[16].

Feeding

In the Věstonice Reservoir (River Thaya, the basin of the Morava River) the larvae of Chironomidae, mostly Phytotendipes gripekoveni comprise 40.2% and Asellus aquaticus 27.6%[17] as well as Corixidae, copepods, Ceratopogonidae, Cladocera, and leeches (Hirudinea).

Parasites

Infestation is low in the natural range. In the delta of the Dniester River they have 5 parasite species; trematodes Nicolla skrjabini are most numerous.[18] In the small rivers of the northern coast of the Sea of Azov it has trematodes Plagioporus skrjabini and glochidia of molluscs.[19]

After introduction, the tubenose goby in the Morava River have 13 parasite species; the trematodes, such as Apatemon cobitidis proterorhini, Diplostomum spathaceum, Tylodelphys clavata, were most numerous in the parasite community.[20] In the Great Lakes the introduced tubenose goby was infected with 6 parasite species, but the infestation with every particular species was very low.[21][22][23] It is included as paratenic host to the life cycle of the parasite of turtles, the nematode Spiroxys contortus.

Look also

References

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ Freyhof, Jörg and Alexander M. Naseka (2007). "Proterorhinus tataricus, a new tubenose goby from Crimea, Ukraine (Teleostei: Gobiidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18 (4): 325–334. http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/ief18_4_05.pdf. 
  3. ^ Kottelat M., Freyhof J. (2007) Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Cornol, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany.
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ Harka Á. (1990) Zusätzliche Verbreitungsgebiete der Marmorierten Grundel (Proterorhinus marmoratus Pallas) in Mitteleuropa. Österreichs Fischerei, 43: 262–265.
  6. ^ Eros, T.; Sevcsik, A.; Toth, B. (2005). "Abundance and night-time habitat use patterns of Ponto-Caspian gobiid species (Pisces, Gobiidae) in the littoral zone of the River Danube, Hungary". Journal of Applied Ichthyology 21 (4): 350. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0426.2005.00689.x. 
  7. ^ Prášek V., Jurajda P. (2005) Expansion of Proterorhinus marmoratus in the Morava River basin (Czech Republic, Danube R. watershed). Folia Zool., 54(1–2): 189–192.
  8. ^ Pinchuk V.I., Smirnov A.I., Koval N.V., Shevchenko P.G. (1985) On recent distribution of the gobiid fishes (Gobiidae) in the Dnieper River basin. In: Hydrobiological investigations of fresh waters. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 121–130. (in Russian)
  9. ^ Rizevsky V., Pluta M., Leschenko A., Ermolaeva I. (2007) First record of the invasive Ponto-Caspian tubenose goby Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas, 1814) from the River Pripyat, Belarus. Aquatic Invasions, 2(3): 275–277.
  10. ^ Reinartz R., Hilbrich T. (2000) Nachweis der Marmorierten Grundel im unterfränkischen Mein bei Eltmann (Rheineinzugsgebiet). Österreichs Fischerei, 53: 192–194.
  11. ^ Freyhof F. (2003) Immigration and potential impacts of invasive freshwater fishes in Germany. In: IGB Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei im Forschungsverbund, Annual Report 2002. e. V., Berlin, 51–58.[1]
  12. ^ Copp G.H. et al. (2005). "To be, or not to be, a non-native freshwater fish?". Journal of Applied Ichthyology 21 (4): 242. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0426.2005.00690.x. http://www.igb-berlin.de/abt4/mitarbeiter/freyhof/downloads/CoppEtaL2005a.pdf. 
  13. ^ Manné S., Poulet N. (2008). "First record of the western tubenose goby Proterorhinus semilunaris (Heckel, 1837) in France". Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems (389): 03. doi:10.1051/kmae:2008009. 
  14. ^ Grabowska J., Pietraszewski D., Onadračková M. (2008) Tubenose goby Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas, 1814) has joined three other Ponto-Caspian gobies in the Vistula River (Poland). Aquatic Invasions, 3(2): 261–265
  15. ^ Jude D.J., Reider R.H., Smith G.R. (1992) Establishment of Gobiidae in the Great Lakes basin. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 49: 416–421.[2]
  16. ^ Cammaerts R., Spikmans F., van Kessel N., Verreycken H., Chérot F., Demol T., Richez S. (2011) Colonization of the Border Meuse area (The Netherlands and Belgium) by the non-native western tubenose goby Proterorhinus semilunaris (Heckel, 1837) (Teleostei, Gobiidae). Aquatic Invasions, accepted: 8 pp.
  17. ^ Adámek Z., Jurajda P., Prášek V., Sukop I. (2010) Seasonal diet pattern of non-native tubenose goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris) in a lowland reservoir (Mušov, Czech Republic). Knowl. Managt. Aquatic Ecosyst., 397:02
  18. ^ Kvach Y., Oğuz M.C. (2009) Communities of metazoan parasites of two fishes of Proterorhinus genus (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae). Helminthologia, 46(3): 168–176.
  19. ^ Chaplina O.M., Antsyshkina A.M. (1961) Materialy do parazytofauny ryb malyh richok Pivnichnogo Pryazov’ya. Dopovidi AN USSR, 2: 247–250. (in Ukrainian)
  20. ^ Koubková B., Barus V. (2000) Metazoan parasites of the recently established tubenose goby (Proterorhinus marmoratus) population from the Southern Moravian reservoir, Czech Republic. Helminthologia, 37: 89–95.
  21. ^ Muzzall P.M., Peebles C.R., Thomas M.V. (1995) Parasites of the round goby, Neogobius melanostomus, and tubenose goby, Proterorhinus marmoratus (Perciformes: Gobiidae), from the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair, Michigan. J. Helminthol. Soc. Wash., 62(2): 226–228.
  22. ^ Pronin N.M., Fleischer G.W., Baldanova D.R., Pronina S.V. (1997) Parasites of the recently established round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and tubenose goby (Proterorhinus marmoratus) (Gobiidae) from the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair, Michigan, USA. Folia Parasitol., 44: 1–6.
  23. ^ Kvach Y., Stepien C.A. (2008) Metazoan parasites of introduced round and tubenose gobies in the Great Lakes: support for the “enemy release hypothesis”. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 34: 23–35.

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