Il ghiozzo girino granuloso, Benthophilus granulosus Kessler, 1877

Nomi comuni esteri - Inglese - Granular tadpole-goby. Russo - Granular pugolovka.

Benthophilus granulosus Kessler 1877. The Aralo-Caspian Expedition. IV. Fishes of the Aralo-Caspio-Pontine ichthyological region. St. Petersburg. Aralo-Caspian Exped. i-xxvii + 1-360; 57 Pl. 5 (fig. 14). Sinonimo senior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN valida. Opinioni - Nomenclatura specifica valida come Benthophilus granulosus Kessler 1877, vedere Berg 1949:1119, Coad 1995:29, Reshetnikov et al. 1997:753, Vasil'eva 1998:128, Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47, Pinchuk & Miller in Miller 2004:192, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:216, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:558, Neilson & Stepien 2009:96. Località tipo - Mar Caspio medio e meridionale, 21-140 ft.; Baia di Baky, Azerbaijan. Tipo - Lectotipo ZISP [= ZIN] 2242. Lectotipo designato da Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007:51. Sintipi - (7 + 1) BMNH 1897.7.5.14 [ex ZIN] (?1); ZIN 2242 (1), 10898 (1).

Benthophilus squamatus Baer, 1984. In Lukina 1984:168. Scientific Heritage. Vol. 9. Caspian expedition of K. M. Baer in 1853-1857. Diaries and materials. Nauka, Leningrad. 558 pp. Originale non visionato, vedere Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007:51. Sinonimo junior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Sinonimo di Benthophilus granulosus Kessler 1877, vedere Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007:49, 51, Neilson & Stepien 2009:96. Località tipo - Ansa a Novopetrovsk, Mangyshlak. Tipo - Nessun esemplare noto.

Fonti bibliografiche principali - Kottelat M. and J. Freyhof 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland and Freyof, Berlin, Germany. Pagina 558. 

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

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Ragimov, D.B. 1981. Distribution and abundance of Gobiidae in the Northern Caspian Sea.

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 and L.I. Sokolov, 1997. An annotated check-list of the freshwater fishes of Russia. J. Ichthyol. 37(9):687-736.