Syrman goby

Syrman goby
Syrman goby
the Syrman Goby from the Budaki Lagoon, SW Ukraine
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Benthophilinae
Genus: Ponticola
Species: P. syrman
Binomial name
Ponticola syrman
(Nordmann, 1840)
Synonyms
  • Gobius eurystomus Kessler, 1877
  • Gobius hybridus Iljin, 1956
  • Gobius syrman Nordmann, 1840
  • Gobius trautvetteri Kessler, 1859
  • Neogobius syrman (Nordmann, 1840)
  • Neogobius syrman eurystomus (Kessler, 1877)

Syrman goby, Ponticola syrman, is a species of fish in the Gobiidae family. Habits the brackish and fresh waters Black and Caspian Seas (when presented by subspecies Ponticola syrman eurystomus). Widespread in the coastal lakes in Bulgaria: Mandrensko, Burgasko.[1] In the lower Danube and lakes in the delta. In the Dniester, Berezan, Dnieper-Bug estuaries. Presented in the Dniester, Dnieper, and Southern Bug Rivers. In the Sea of Azov and rivers Kalmius, Berda, lower Don, in the Kerch Strait.

The head of the Syrman Goby

Reference

  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)

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