Ecology
Habitat
Depth range based on 1 specimen in 2 taxa.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 42 - 42
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Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 42 - 42
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Tadpole goby
Pugolovkas, or tadpole gobies, (Benthophilus) is a genus of Ponto-Caspian gobiids. Distributed in the fresh and brackish waters of basins of the Black and Caspian Sea. The word pugolovka (Ukrainian: Пуголовка) means tadpole in Ukrainian. Consists of 20 species:[1]
- Benthophilus abdurahmanovi - Abdurahmanov's pugolovka
- Benthophilus baeri - Baer pugolovka
- Benthophilus casachicus
- Benthophilus ctenolepidus
- Benthophilus durrelli - Don tadpole-goby
- Benthophilus granulosus - Granular pugolovka
- Benthophilus grimmi
- Benthophilus kessleri
- Benthophilus leobergius - Caspian stellate tadpole-goby
- Benthophilus leptocephalus
- Benthophilus leptorhynchus - Short-snout pugolovka
- Benthophilus macrocephalus - Caspian tadpole goby
- Benthophilus magistri - Azov tadpole goby
- Benthophilus mahmudbejovi - Small-spine tadpole-goby
- Benthophilus nudus - Black Sea tadpole-goby
- Benthophilus pinchuki
- Benthophilus ragimovi
- Benthophilus spinosus - Spiny pugolovka
- Benthophilus stellatus - Stellate tadpole-goby
- Benthophilus svetovidovi
References
- ^ Boldyrev V.S., Bogutskaya N.G. (2007) Revision of the tadpole-gobie of the genus Benthophilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters, 18(1): 31-96.[1]
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