Ratan goby

Ratan goby
Ponticola ratan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Benthophilinae
Genus:	Ponticola
Species:	P. ratan
Binomial name
Ponticola ratan (Nordmann, 1840)
Synonyms
Gobius bogdanowi Kessler, 1874 Gobius goebelii Kessler, 1874 Gobius ratan Nordmann, 1840 Neogobius bogdanowi (Kessler, 1874) Neogobius ratan (Nordmann, 1840) Neogobius ratan goebeli (Kessler, 1874) Neogobius ratan (Nordmann, 1840) Neogobius ratan ratan (Nordmann, 1840)

The Ratan goby, Ponticola ratan, is a Ponto-Caspian fish species in the family Gobiidae. It inhabits the brackish and fresh waters of the Black Sea basin. In the Caspian Sea it is presented by subspecies Ponticola ratan goebeli. Common found near the coasts of Bulgaria, Romania, it is also present in Ukraine (near Odessa, Ochakiv, and in the estuaries of the Dniester, Berezan, Dnieper and Bug), in the Karkinit Bay, and near the Crimean coasts.^[1] It is also found in the Sea of Azov (western part), Kerch Strait, and north-eastern Black Sea.

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)

Links

• http://fish.kiev.ua/pages/ukrfishm/ukrfishm79.htm
• http://www.grid.unep.ch/bsein/redbook/txt/neogob-r.htm?%20PISCES