Ponticola cyrius ( Kessler, 1874 )
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30. Ponticola cyrius ( Kessler, 1874) View in CoL ( Fig. 26 View FIGURE 26 ), Kura Goby
Gobius cyrius Kessler, 1874: 273 View in CoL ; type locality: Kura River near Borzhomi, Georgia; lectotype: ZISP 2235.
Etymology: The species name cyrius means “relating to the River Kura” in Latin.
Distribution: The upper and middle courses of the Kura River basin, the South Caspian Sea sub-basin drainage ( Fig. 27A View FIGURE 27 ) ( Vasil’eva & Vasil’ev 2003a). No confirmed records from Iran.
Remarks: Specimens previously identified by Ahnelt & Holčik (1996) as P. cyrius and P. iljini from Iranian rivers are conspecific with P. patimari and P. gorlap , respectively ( Zarei et al. 2021, 2022b). In Iran, it also may be present in the Aras River (= Araks River), which flows into the Kura River in Azerbaijan. Therefore, a detailed morphological and molecular analysis of Ponticola specimens from Aras should be undertaken.
Material examined: PMR VP1691, 3, Hanak, Kura River drainage basin, northeastern Turkey.
IUCN: LC ( Freyhof 2014).
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Ponticola cyrius ( Kessler, 1874 )
Zarei, Fatah, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Abbasi, Keyvan, Kovačić, Marcelo, Schliewen, Ulrich K. & Stepien, Carol A. 2022 |
Gobius cyrius
Kessler, K. F. 1874: 273 |