Abdurahmanov's pugolovka

Abdurahmanov's pugolovka
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Gobiiformes
Family:Gobiidae
Genus:Benthophilus
Species: B. abdurahmanovi
Binomial name
Benthophilus abdurahmanovi
Ragimov, 1978
the range of the Abdurahmanov's pugolovka
Synonyms
  • Benthophilus magistri abdurahmanovi Ragimov, 1978

Abdurahmanov's pugolovka (Benthophilus abdurahmanovi) is a brackishwater fish of Gobiidae family. It is found in the northern Caspian Sea and in the lower reaches of the rivers Volga and Terek.[1] FishBase treats this taxa as a subspecies of the Azov tadpole goby (Benthophilus magistri abdurahmanovi.[2]

The specific name honours Azerbaijani zoologist Yuri A. Abdurahmanov.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Benthophilus magistri" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 August 2018.


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