Il ghiozzo naga, Caspiosoma caspium (Kessler, 1877)

Nomi comuni esteri - Russo - Kaspiosoma. Polacco - Babka naga. Turco - Kaya baligi.

Gobiosoma caspium Kessler 1877. The Aralo-Caspian Expedition. IV. Fishes of the Aralo-Caspio-Pontine ichthyological region. St. Petersburg. Aralo-Caspian Exped. i-xxvii + 1-360; 38 Pl. 3 (fig. 9). Status: nomenclatura originaria, non valida. Opinioni: nomenclatura valida come "Caspiosoma caspium" (Kessler 1877), per Berg 1949:1104, Miller 1973:491, Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1028, Coad 1995:30, Reshetnikov et al. 1997:753, Vasil'eva 1998:131, Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47, Vasil'eva 2003:S43, Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:141, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:219. Località tipo: Medio Mar Caspio, da 9.5 a 20 metri di profondità. Tipo: mancante. Sintipi: (20) BMNH 1897.7.5.12 [ex ZIN] (1), ZIN 3874 (2), 10910 (2).

Caspiosoma caspium (Kessler, 1877). Status: nuova nomenclatura, valida.

Fonti bibliografiche principali - Miller, P.J., 1986. Gobiidae.. p. 1019-1085. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volume 3. UNESCO, Paris. Pagina 1028.

Bibliografia - Anon., 1999 Fish collection database of the Natural History Museum, London (formerly British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)). Natural History Museum, London (formerly British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)).

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

Miller, P.J., 1979 Gobiidae. p. 483-515. In J.C. Hureau and Th. Monod (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (CLOFNAM). UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1.

Miller, P.J., 1986 Gobiidae. p. 1019-1085. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volume 3. UNESCO, Paris.

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.

Sokolov, L.I. and L.S. Berdicheskii, 1989 Acipenseridae. p. 150-153. In J. Holcík (ed.) The freshwater fishes of Europe. Vol. 1, Part II. General introduction to fishes Acipenseriformes. AULA-Verlag Wiesbaden. 469 p.

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