Ponticola cyrius
| Ponticola cyrius | |
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| Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Subfamily: | Benthophilinae |
| Genus: | Ponticola |
| Species: | P. cyrius |
| Binomial name | |
| Ponticola cyrius (Kessler, 1874) | |
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Ponticola cyrius is a species of gobiid fish endemic to the Kura River in the southern Caucasus countries of Georgia, Turkey,[2] Iran and Azerbaijan.[3] It reaches a length of 13 centimetres (5.1 in) SL.[3] It lives in the upper parts of the Kura River, Massuleh River and the Pasikhan River and in the Anzali Mordab (Iran). Downstream in Kura it is replaced by Ponticola gorlap.[3]
References
- ↑ Kessler, K. T. 1874. A description of fishes belonging to the families common to both the Black and the Caspian seas. Trudy St. Petersburg. Obsh. Estestv. v. 5: 191-324, 1 pl.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Ponticola cyrius" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- 1 2 3 Brian W. Coad Freshwater Fishes of Iran (accessed 18 Feb 2015)
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