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Black Sea tadpole-goby

Black Sea tadpole-goby
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Benthophilinae
Genus: Benthophilus
Species: B. nudus
Binomial name
Benthophilus nudus
L. S. Berg, 1898
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The range of the Black Sea tadpole-goby
Synonyms
  • Benthophilus macrocephalus nudus L. S. Berg, 1898
  • Benthophilus macrocephalus ponticus L. S. Berg, 1916

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 Kiev, Southern Bug. 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.



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