Il ghiozzo girino del Mar d'Azov,

Benthophilus magistri Iljin, 1927

Nomi comuni esteri - Inglese - Azov tadpole goby. Russo - Azovskaya pugolovka. Iran - Gav Mahi Lenkoran.

Benthophilus magistri Iljin, 1927. Keys to the gobies (Fam. Gobiidae) of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Preliminary communication. Trudy/Azovo-Cernomorskij Naucno-Issledovatel'skij Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Chozjajstva i Okeanografii Azovo - Cernomorskij Naucno - Issledovatel'skij Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Chozjajstva i Okeanografii Moskva. V. 2: 128-143, Pls. 1-2. Sinonimo senior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN valida. Opinioni - Nomenclatura specifica valida come Benthophilus magistri Iljin 1927, vedere Berg 1949:1112, Coad 1995:29, Reshetnikov et al. 1997:753, Vasil'eva 1998:129, Coad 1998:103, Vasil'eva 2000:764, Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47, Vasil'eva 2003:S42, Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:235, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:218, Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2004:132, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:560, Vasil'eva 2007:150, Neilson & Stepien 2009:96. Località tipo - Mare d'Azov, a Krivaya Kosa Spit, Ucraina. Tipo - Lectotipo ZISP 23138. Paralectotipi ZISP 53667 [ex 23138] (1). Lectotipo designato da Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007:60.

Fonti bibliografiche principali - Kottelat M. and J. Freyhof 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland and Freyof, Berlin, Germany. Pagina 560 - 561.

Bibliografia - Berg, L.S., 1965. Freshwater fishes of the U.S.S.R. and adjacent countries. volume 3, 4° edizione. Israel Program for Scientific Translations Ltd, Jerusalem.

Boldyrev, V.S. & Bogutskaya, N.G. 2007. Revision of the tadpole gobies of the genus Benthophilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18: 31-96.

Coad, B.W., 1998. Systematic biodiversity in the freshwater fishes of Iran. Ital. J. Zool. 65:101-108.

Coad, B.W., 2003. Freshwater fishes of Iran: checklists of Farsi names.

Coad, B.W., 2003. Freshwater fishes of Iran.

Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Benthophilus magistri. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Iljin, B.S. 1927. Key to gobies of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov.

IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. http://www.iucnredlist.org.

Kottelat, M. & Freyhof, J. 2007. Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland.

Pinchuk et al. 2004. in: Miller, P.J. (ed.) The freshwater fishes of Europe. 8/II.Gobiidae 2. Aula, Wiebelsheim.

Reshetnikov, Y.S., 2003. Atlas of Russian freshwater fishes, Vol. 2. Moscow Nauka.

Reshetnikov, Y.S., N.G. Bogutskaya, E.D. Vasil'eva, E.A. Dorofeeva, A.M. Naseka, O.A. Popova, K.A. Savvaitova, V.G. Sideleva & L.I. Sokolov, 1997. An annotated check-list of the freshwater fishes of Russia. J. Ichthyol. 37(9):687-736.

Smirnov, A.I., 1986. Fauna of Ukraine. Fishes. Perch-like Fishes (Gobies), scorpion fishes, flatfishes, clingfishes, anglerfishes. (Fauna Ukrainy. Ryby. Okune obraznye (Bychkovidnye), scorpenoobraznye, kambaloobraznye, prisoskoperoobraznye, udilshchikoobraznye). Kiev, Naukova Dumka Publishing House, 8(5).

Svetovidov, A.N., 1964. Handbook of the fauna of the USSR, fishes of the Black Sea. Izdatel'stvo Nauka, Moscow, 550 p.