Black Sea tadpole-goby
(Redirected from Benthophilus nudus)
| Black Sea tadpole-goby | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Benthophilus |
| Species: | B. nudus
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| Benthophilus nudus Berg, 1898
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| The range of the Black Sea tadpole-goby | |
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The Black Sea tadpole-goby (Benthophilus nudus) is a species of goby native to the basin of the Black Sea. Found in the Gulf of Tendra and limans of the north-western Black Sea, lakes of the Danube Delta. In the rivers of the Black Sea basin: Danube up to Iron Gate dam, Dniester up to Tighina, Dnieper up to Kyiv, Southern Bug.[2] This species is mostly a denizen of fresh and slightly brackish bodies of water, preferring rivers and deltas, limans and coastal lakes. This fish can reach a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Freyhof, J. (2011). "Benthophilus nudus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T135604A4158452. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135604A4158452.en.
- ^ Boldyrev V.S., Bogutskaya N.G. (2007) Revision of the tadpole-gobie of the genus Benthophilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters, 18(1): 31–96.[1] Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Benthophilus nudus". FishBase. April 2013 version.
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