Benthophilus macrocephalus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. & fataahzarei @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5552 - 4301
- 2. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. & hresmaeili @ shirazu. ac. ir; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9736 - 397 X
- 3. Inland Waters Aquaculture Research Center, Iranian Fisheries Sciences Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Bandar Anzali, Iran.
- 4. Natural History Museum Rijeka, Lorenzov prolaz 1, HR- 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.
- 5. SNSB-Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Department of Ichthyology, Münchhausenstr. 21, 81247 München, Germany. schliewen @ snsb. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0187 - 4319
- 6. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C, USA. StepienCA @ si. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5544 - 4333
Description
14. Benthophilus macrocephalus (Pallas, 1787), Caspian Tadpole Goby
Gobius macrocephalus Pallas, 1787: 352, pl. 10, figs. 4–6; type locality: Caspian Sea; types: no types known.
Etymology: Greek, makros = long + Greek, kephale = head, refers to the relatively large head.
Distribution and habitat: Coastal waters of all three areas of the Caspian Sea (Fig. 11B). One of the most abundant species in the North Caspian Sea. In the Middle Caspian Sea, it has been recorded along the western coast, and in the South Caspian Sea eastward to Gorgan Bay, Iran (Ragimov 1965; Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007). In the South Caspian Sea sub-basin, this species has been reported from the Anzali Wetland and Gorgan Bay in Iran and between Kultuk and Astara in Azerbaijan (Ragimov 1965). De Filippi (1865) reported this species in freshwaters of the Anzali Wetlands. The species has not been found along the eastern coast of the Middle Caspian Sea. The range is rather similar to that of B. leobergius (but the latter also has been collected at Ogurchinskiy Island). Occurs in coastal waters and estuaries usually at depths from 0.5–10 m, over muddy bottoms, and in the lower reaches of rivers. Widely distributed, but more abundant in areas having salinities less than 7–8 ‰. During warm seasons, it prefers coastal waters down to 10 m deep. In the North Caspian Sea region, it migrates to deeper areas (20–25 m) in the winter (Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007).
IUCN: LC (Freyhof & Kottelat 2008e).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Genus
- Benthophilus
- Species
- macrocephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Benthophilus macrocephalus (Pallas, 1787) sec. Zarei, Esmaeili, Abbasi, Kovačić, Schliewen & Stepien, 2022
References
- Ragimov, D. B. (1965) On the distribution of gobiids at the western coast of the central and southern Caspian. Doklady Akademii Nauk Azerbaijanskoy SSSR, 21, 47 - 50. [in Russian]
- Boldyrev, V. S. & Bogutskaya, N. G. (2007) Revision of the tadpole-gobies of the genus Benthophilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 18, 31 - 96.
- De Filippi, F. (1865) Note de un Viaggio in Persia Nei 1862. G. Daelli & C. Editori, Milano, 396 pp. [in Italian]
- Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. (2008 e) Benthophilus macrocephalus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2008, e. T 135656 A 4172098. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / IUCN. UK. 2008. RLTS. T 135656 A 4172098. en