Mushroom goby

Mushroom goby
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Benthophilinae
Genus:	Ponticola
Species:	P. eurycephalus
Binomial name
Ponticola eurycephalus (Kessler, 1874)
Synonyms
Gobius cephalarges non Pallas, 1814 Neogobius cephalarges (non Pallas, 1814) Gobius eurycephalus Kessler, 1874 Neogobius eurycephalus (Kessler, 1874) Neogobius eurycephalus odessicus Pinchuk, 1977 Neogobius platyrostris odessicus Pinchuk, 1977

Ponticola eurycephalus, known as the mushroom goby or ginger goby, is a fish of Gobiidae family. Distributed in the Black Sea along the coasts of Bulgaria, Romania, Caucasus, in the mouth of the Don River. In Ukraine it is widespread in the north-western Black Sea, near Odessa, in the estuaries Berezan and Bug, in the Kerch Strait, near the Crimean coasts.^[1] It has no commercial importance.

References

External identifiers for Mushroom goby
EOL	214606
ITIS	637722
NCBI	637977
WoRMS	475064
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1. ^ 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)

Links

• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Ponticola eurycephalus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
• Marine Species Identification Portal