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Benthophilus svetovidovi Pinchuk & Ragimov 1979

  • 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

20. Benthophilus svetovidovi Pinchuk & Ragimov, 1979, Svetovidov’s Tadpole Goby

Benthophilus svetovidovi Pinchuk & Ragimov, 1979: 515; type locality: South Caspian Sea (?), depth 86 m; holotype: ZIN 43672, female, 39 mm TL, paratypes: ZIN 43673 (1, lost).

Etymology: Named after A. N. Svetovidov, Russian ichthyologist.

Distribution and habitat: Known from along the eastern coast of Middle Caspian Sea and from off Ogurchinskiy Island (ZISP) in the northeastern South Caspian Sea (Fig. 11A). No records from Iran. Recorded from 30–200 m depths at 12–13.5 ‰ salinity (Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007).

IUCN: DD (Bogutskaya 2020j).

Notes

Published as part of Zarei, Fatah, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Abbasi, Keyvan, Kovačić, Marcelo, Schliewen, Ulrich K. & Stepien, Carol A., 2022, Gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) of the oldest and deepest Caspian Sea sub-basin: an evidence-based annotated checklist and a key for species identification, pp. 151-193 in Zootaxa 5190 (2) on page 170, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7120060

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References

  • 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.
  • Bogutskaya, N. (2020 j) Benthophilus svetovidovi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2020, e. T 156758973 A 156759008. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / IUCN. UK. 2020 - 3. RLTS. T 156758973 A 156759008. en