Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814)

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Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814) – Native ( Fig. 437)

Gobius cephalarges Pallas [P. S.] 1814: 155; Type locality: Feodosiya [Feodosia], Crimea, Ukraine. No types known.

Gobius chilo Pallas [P. S.] 1814: 156; Type locality: Feodosiya [Feodosia], Ukraine. No types known.

Gobius exanthematosus Pallas [P. S.] 1814: 160; Type locality: Shores of Crimea, Ukraine. No types known.

Gobius melanio Pallas [P. S.] 1814: 157; Type locality: Shores of Crimea, Black Sea, Ukraine. No types known.

Gobius melanostomus Pallas [P. S.] 1814: 151; Type locality: Sebvastopol, Crimea, Ukraine; Balaklava, Ukraine. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown.

Gobius virescens Pallas [P. S.] 1814: 158; Type locality: Bay, Crimea, Ukraine. No types known.

Gobius affinis Eichwald [C. E. von] 1831: 75; Type locality: Balkhan Bay, Caspian Sea. No types known.

Gobius sulcatus Eichwald [C. E. von] 1831: 75; Type locality: Balkhan Bay, Caspian Sea. No types known.

Gobius lugens Nordmann [A. von] 1840: 414; Type locality: River, very rapid stream in Drudarium, Abasie [Abkhazia]. No types known.

Gobius grossholzii Steindachner [F.] 1894: 137; Type locality: Lake Kuçuk-Çekilometersece [Küjük Cekilometersedze], Turkey, Sea of Marmara (Mediterranean Sea). Syntypes: (several) NMW 34032–34 (3), 34035–36 (2), 34037–42 (6), 34043–44 (2), 34045–50 (6), 34051–60 (13), 34061–62 (2), 49912 (2).

Common name: Pr: Gavmahi-ye gerd, Gavmahi domgerd, En: Round goby.

Diagnosis: Distinguished by pelvic fin anterior membrane with lateral, rounded and shallow lobes (less than 20% width of anterior edge of membrane). Anterior part nape with cycloid scales, D 1 with large black blotch at rear.

Meristic characters: D 1: V–VIII (VI), D 2: I 11–18, A: I–II (I) 9–14, P: 16–20, LS: 48–57, TV:?.

Distribution: Caspian basin ( Fig. 438). Reported from a wide range of rivers along the Caspian coast of Iran including the Gorgan, Tonekabon, Sefidrud, Shimrud, Chemkhaleh, Rud-e Sere, Kargan, Navarus, Chalus, Babol and Haraz rivers, the Anzali wetland and the Anzali Shore, Gorgan Bay, the southeast Caspian Sea, southwest Caspian Sea and south-central Caspian Sea.

Taxonomy: Berg (1949) placed in Neogobius .

Conservation: IUCN: Least Concern ( Freyhof and Kottelat 2008x).