Ponticola
| Ponticola | |
|---|---|
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| Ponticola 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 (gobiid fishes) native mostly to fresh waters of the Black Sea - Caspian Sea region in Eurasia. Some species occur in the brackish-water Black and Caspian seas themselves.[1] It is part of the broader goby subfamily Benthophilinae, also endemic to the same region. Originally, Ponticola was described as subgenus of Neogobius.
Species
There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:[1][2]
- Ponticola bathybius (Kessler, 1877)
- 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)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2015). Species of Ponticola in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ Neilson M.E., Stepien C.A. (2009) Escape from the Ponto-Caspian: Evolution and biogeography of an endemic goby species flock (Benthophilinae: Gobiidae: Teleostei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52(1): 84-102.