Ponticola

Ponticola
Ratan Goby (P. ratan)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Gobioidei
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Benthophilinae
Genus:	Ponticola Iljin, 1927
Type species
Gobius ratan Nordmann, 1840

Ponticola is a genus of gobies native mostly to fresh waters of Eurasia with a few marine species occurring in the Black and Caspian seas.^[1] Originally, described as subgenus of Neogobius.

Species

There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:^[2][3]

• Ponticola bathybius (Kessler, 1877) (see Note below)
• Ponticola cephalargoides (Pinchuk, 1976)
• Ponticola constructor (Nordmann, 1840) (Caucasian goby)
• Ponticola cyrius (Kessler, 1874)
• Ponticola eurycephalus (Kessler, 1874) (Mushroom goby)
• Ponticola gorlap (Iljin, 1949) (Caspian Bighead Goby)
• Ponticola kessleri (Günther, 1861) (Bighead goby)
• Ponticola platyrostris (Pallas, 1814) (Flatsnout goby)
• Ponticola ratan (Nordmann, 1840) (Ratan goby)
• Ponticola rhodioni (Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1994) (Riverine goby)
• Ponticola rizensis (Kovačić & Engin, 2008)
• Ponticola syrman (Nordmann, 1840) (Syrman goby)
• Ponticola turani (Kovačić & Engin, 2008)

Note: While P. bathybius is listed by FishBase as belonging to the genus Neogobius, most other sources including the California Academy of Sciences Catalog of Fishes treat it as belonging to this genus.

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