Il ghiozzo macrocefalo, Benthophilus macrocephalus (Pallas, 1788)

Nomi comuni esteri - Inglese - Caspian goby, Caspian tadpole goby. Tedesco - Kaspische Kaulquappengrundel. Finnico - Kaspiansimpputokko. Russo - Kaspiiskaya pugolovka. Persiano - Gav Mahi Vzgheh.

Gobius macrocephalus Pallas 1787. Piscium novae species descriptae. Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petropol. 347-360; v. 1 (mém.) 352 Pl. 10 (figs. 4-6). Status: nomenclatura originaria, non valida. Opinioni: nomenclatura valida come "Benthophilus macrocephalus" (Pallas 1787), per 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. La datazione potrebbe essere 1788. Località tipo: Mar Caspio. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Benthophilus macrocephalus (Pallas, 1788). Status: nuova nomenclatura, valida.

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