Proterorhinus semipellucidus

Proterorhinus semipellucidus
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Infraclass: Teleostei
Superorder: Acanthopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Gobioidei
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Benthophilinae
Genus: Proterorhinus
Species: P. semipellucidus
Binomial name
Proterorhinus semipellucidus
(Kessler, 1877)
Suggested range of P. semipellucidus[1]
Synonyms
  • Gobius semipellucidus Kessler, 1877

Proterorhinus semipellucidus is a species of gobiid fish, a tubenose goby originally described from the Gharasu River near Gorgan Bay of the Caspian Sea in Iran. Following the systematic decomposition of the tubenose gobies it was suggested to be a more widespread and invasive taxon distributed in the fresh waters of the Caspian Sea basin.[1][2] It may be the same species as that known as Proterorhinus nasalis.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Neilson M.E., Stepien C.A. (2009) Evolution and phylogeography of the tubenose goby genus Proterorhinus (Gobiidae: Teleostei): evidence for new cryptic species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 96(3): 664–684.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Proterorhinus semipellucidus" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. Brian W. Coad Freshwater Fishes of Iran (accessed 22 Feb 2015)

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