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Ponticola

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
Benthophilinae

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Gobiidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Perciformes

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Lower classifications
  
Ponticola kessleri, Syrman goby

Ponticola is a genus of gobies native mostly to fresh waters of the Black Sea - Caspian Sea region in Eurasia. Some species occur in the brackish-water Black and Caspian seas themselves. It is part of the broader goby subfamily Benthophilinae, also endemic to the same region. Originally, Ponticola was described as subgenus of Neogobius.

Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:

  • Ponticola bathybius (Kessler, 1877)
  • Ponticola cephalargoides (Pinchuk, 1976)
  • Ponticola constructor (Nordmann, 1840) (Caucasian goby)
  • Ponticola cyrius (Kessler, 1874)
  • Ponticola eurycephalus (Kessler, 1874) (Mushroom goby)
  • Ponticola gorlap (Iljin, 1949) (Caspian bighead goby)
  • Ponticola gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857)
  • Ponticola iljini (Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1996) (Eastern Caspian bighead goby)
  • Ponticola iranicus Vasil'eva, Mousavi-Sabet & Vasil'ev, 2015
  • Ponticola kessleri (Günther, 1861) (Big-head goby)
  • Ponticola platyrostris (Pallas, 1814) (Flat-snout goby)
  • Ponticola ratan (Nordmann, 1840) (Ratan goby)
  • Ponticola rhodioni (Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1994) (Riverine goby)
  • Ponticola rizensis (Kovačić & Engin, 2008)
  • Ponticola syrman (Nordmann, 1840) (Syrman goby)
  • Ponticola turani (Kovačić & Engin, 2008) (Turan's goby)

    • References

    Ponticola Wikipedia
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