Flatsnout goby

Flatsnout goby
Flatsnout goby from Caucasus, Black Sea
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. platyrostris
Binomial name
Ponticola platyrostris (Pallas, 1814)
Synonyms
Gobius platyrostris Pallas, 1814 Neogobius platyrostris (Pallas, 1814)

The flatsnout goby, Ponticola platyrostris, is a Ponto-Caspian species of the family Gobiidae. Widespread in the north-western and north-eastern parts of the Black Sea (without limans), near the coasts of Crimea, in some parts of the Sea of Azov^[1]. In the eastern part of the Black Sea it is widespread from the Kerch Strait along all the coast of Caucasus to Batumi^[2]. Between the rivers it is registered in the Southern Bug^[3].

References

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)
2. ^ Miller P.J. (1986) Gobiidae. In: Whitehead P.J.P., Bauchot M.-L., Hureau J.-C., Nielsen J., Tortonese E. (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Vol. 3. UNESCO, Paris.
3. ^ Movchan Yu.V., Pankov A.V., Rabtsevych Yu.Ye. (2002) Znakhidky novyh vydiv ryb v seredniy ta verkhniy techiyi Pivdennogo Bugu. Vestnik Zoologii, 36(5): 85—88.

Links

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