bio.wikisort.org - Animal

Ponticola gorlap, or the Caspian bighead goby, is a species of goby, a benthic fish native to the Caspian Sea basin. It is widespread in lower parts of many rivers in Iran, and also found in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.[2] In Russia, it occurred in the lowest part of the Volga River up to Astrakhan until 1977, but has thereafter spread upstream. In 2000 it was recorded as being established in the Ivankovo and Rybinsk Reservoirs in the Moscow region, and already invaded the Don drainage by way of the Volga-Don Canal in 1972.[3] This species occurs in sheltered environments, such as inshore fresh or brackish waters of estuaries, lagoons, lakes and large rivers, where it prefers habitats with a well vegetated rock or firmly packed sand substrate. It can reach a length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) SL, and a common size is 12 centimetres (4.7 in) SL.[3]

Ponticola gorlap
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)<[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Ponticola
Species:	P. gorlap
Binomial name
Ponticola gorlap (Iljin, 1949)
Synonyms
Neogobius kessleri gorlap Iljin, 1949 Neogobius gorlap Iljin, 1949 Neogobius iljini Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1996

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ponticola gorlap.

На других языках

---

- [en] Ponticola gorlap

---

[es] Ponticola gorlap

Ponticola gorlap es una especie de peces de la familia de los Gobiidae en el orden de los Perciformes.

---

---