Chestnut goby

Chestnut goby
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Gobiinae
Genus: Chromogobius
Species: C. quadrivittatus
Binomial name
Chromogobius quadrivittatus
(Steindachner, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Gobius quadrivittatus Steindachner, 1863
  • Gobius depressus quadrivittata Steindachner, 1863
  • Gobius planiceps Bellotti, 1879
  • Gobius depressus Kolombatovic, 1891
  • Chromogobius kryzanowskii Ptchelina, 1939

The chestnut goby (Chromogobius quadrivittatus) is a species of goby found in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.[2] In the Black Sea it is found in the Gulf of Varna, saline lagoons near Abrau, also near Novorossiysk and Sochi.[3] This species occurs in shallow, coastal waters. It can reach a length of 6.6 centimetres (2.6 in) SL.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Acero, A., Murdy, E. & Van Tassell, J. 2010. Chromogobius quadrivittatus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 August 2013.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Chromogobius quadrivittatus" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. ↑ Smirnov A.I. (1986) Perch-likes (gobiids), scorpionfishes, flatfishes, clingfishes, anglerfishes [in:] Fauna of Ukraine, Vol. 8, No 5, Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 320 pp. (in Russian)
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