Small-spine tadpole-goby
| Small-spine tadpole-goby | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Benthophilinae |
| Genus: | Benthophilus |
| Species: | B. mahmudbejovi |
| Binomial name | |
| Benthophilus mahmudbejovi Ragimov, 1976 | |
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| The range of the Small-spine tadpole-goby | |
The small-spine tadpole-goby (Benthophilus mahmudbejovi) is a species of goby, a small fish native to the eastern coasts of the Caspian Sea and the lower reaches of the Volga River up to Volgograd. In the sea it is recorded from the Cape Peschany to the Çeleken Peninsula and Ogurja Ada Island in the south.[2] It is abundant the Volga River delta.[1] This species can be found at depths down to 50 metres (160 ft) although the adults generally are not found deeper than 11 metres (36 ft). This species can reach a length of 6.6 centimetres (2.6 in) TL.[3]
References
- 1 2 Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Benthophilus mahmudbejovi. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 August 2013.
- ↑ Boldyrev V.S., Bogutskaya N.G. (2007) Revision of the tadpole-gobiez of the genus Benthophilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters, 18(1): 31-96.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Benthophilus mahmudbejovi" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
External links
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