Il ghiozzo girino macrocefalo,

Benthophilus macrocephalus (Pallas, 1788)

Nomi comuni esteri - Tedesco - Kaspische Kaulquappengrundel. Inglese - Caspian goby, Caspian tadpole goby, Bighead goby. Finlandia - Kaspiansimpputokko. Russia - Kaspiiskaya pugolovka. Iran - gavmahi-ye vazagh. Azerbaijan - Iribas comcaxul. Montenegro e Serbia - Glavocic batoglavcic.

Benthophilus macrocephalus (Pallas, 1788). Piscium novae species descriptae. Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petropol. 347-360; v. 1 (mém.) 352 Pl. 10 (fig. 4-6). Sinonimo senior, nuova combinazione, nomenclatura ICZN valida.

Gobius macrocephalus Pallas 1787. Piscium novae species descriptae. Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae v. 1 (Mém.) (for 1783): 352 Pl. 10 (fig. 4-6). Sinonimo senior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Nomenclatura specifica valida come Benthophilus macrocephalus (Pallas 1787), vedere Berg 1949:1109, Coad 1995:29, Reshetnikov et al. 1997:75, Vasil'eva 1998:129, Coad 1998:103, Vasil'eva 2000:764, Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47, Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:225, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:218, Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2004:132, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:560, Neilson & Stepien 2009:96. Località tipo - Mar Caspio. Tipo - Nessun esemplare noto.

Benthophilus macrocephalus rassi Ragimov, 1988. Pubblicato nel 1988 e nel 1991, ma non conforme ai criteri richiesti dall'Istituto Centrale di Nomenclatura Zoologica (ICZN). Opinioni - Non disponibile, vedere Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007.

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