Proterorhinus

Proterorhinus
Tubenose goby (Proterorhinus marmoratus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Gobioidei
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Benthophilinae
Genus: Proterorhinus
Smitt, 1900
Type species
Proterorhinus marmoratus
Pallas, 1814

Proterorhinus is a genus of fishes, known as the tubenose gobies. These gobiid fish are native to Eurasia where they occur in the region of the Caspian and Black seas, inhabiting marine, brackish and fresh waters. The species Proterorhinus semilunaris (previously referred to as P. marmoratus) was introduced to the St. Clair River in Michigan during the late 1990s.[1] Until recently, the genus was considered monotypic, comprising only the tubenose goby (Proterorhinus marmoratus). Following molecular and further morphological investigations it has been split into several taxa, with distinct distributions in marine vs. fresh waters and in the Black Sea vs. Caspian Sea basins.[1]

Species

There are five recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Dillon, Alison; Stepien, Carol (December 2001). "Genetic and Biogeographic Relationships of the Invasive Round (Neogobius melanostomus) and Tubenose (Proterorhinus Marmoratus) Gobies in the Great Lakes Versus Eurasian Populations" (PDF). Great Lakes Environmental Science. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  2. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Proterorhinus in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. Brian W. Coad Freshwater Fishes of Iran (accessed 22 Feb 2015)
  4. Freyhof J., Naseka A.M. (2007) Proterorhinus tataricus, a new tubenose goby from Crimea, Ukraine (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 18(4): 325–334.
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