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Genus of fishes
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.
[1]
[2] It was considered to be part of the broader goby
subfamily
Benthophilinae , also
endemic to the same region, although the 5th edition of
Fishes of the World does not list any subfamilies in the
Gobiidae .
[3] 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)
[4]
Ponticola iranicus
Vasil'eva ,
Mousavi-Sabet &
Vasil'ev , 2015
[5]
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
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016).
Species of Ponticola in
FishBase . January 2016 version.
^ Neilson, M.E.; Stepien C.A. (2009). "Escape from the Ponto-Caspian: evolution and biogeography of an endemic goby species flock (Benthophilinae: Gobiidae: Teleostei)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 52 (1): 84–102.
PMID
19475709 .
^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016).
Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 752.
ISBN
978-1-118-34233-6 .
^ Vasil'eva, E.D., Schwarzhans, W.W., Medvedev, D.A. & Vasil'ev, V.P. (2016): Cryptic Species of Ponto-Caspian Bighead Goby of the Genus Ponticola (Gobiidae). Journal of Ichthyology, 56 (1): 1-18.
^ Vasil'eva, E.D.; Mousavi-Sabet, H.; Vasil'ev, V.P. (2015).
"Ponticola iranicus sp. nov. (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae) from the Caspian Sea basin" (PDF) . Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria . 45 (2): 189–197.