Il ghiozzo testone, Gobius cobitis  Pallas, 1814

Nomi dialettali italiani - Capocchione, Cappuccione, Cuccione muzzariedde, Cuggione, Ghiggion, Ghiozzo di bu'a, Ghiuggiun neigro, Gò de mar, Goatta de mar, Guato, Guatto, Maccarone, Maccioni concamanna, Maccioni perda, Marsion, Mazzone 'e razza, Mazzone 'e scuoglie, Mazzoni, Mazzuni i razza, Mazzuni saracinu, Murscione, Muzzau'ne, Uggiuni, Uggiuni 'i, Urgiuni.

Nomi comuni esteri - Inglese - Giant goby. Spagnolo - Gobito, Cabo de roca, Gobito de roca. Portoghese - Caboz-cabeçudo. Francese - Gobie céphalote. Greco - Chontrogovios. Tedesco - Riesengundel. Danimarca - Kæmpekutling. Finlandia - Isotokko. Slovenia - Skalni glavaè. Croazia - Glavoc plocar. Malta - Mazzun, Mazzun kbir, Seracin, Zbirr. Turchia - Kocabaskaya baligi, Kovit baligi.

Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones anatomen atque icones plurimorum. 3 volumi. [1811-1814]. Petropoli. Zool. Rosso-Asiatica i-vii + 1-428 + index (I-CXXV); v. 3 160. Sinonimo senior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN valida. Opinioni - Nomenclatura specifica valida come Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814, vedere Miller 1973:485, Goren 1979:43, Dor 1984:247, Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1038, Maugé 1986:372, Miller 1990:934, Goren & Dor 1994:64, Kottelat 1997:176, Bilecenoglu et al. 2002:131, Vasil'eva 2003:S44, Fricke et al. 2007:103, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:551, Vasil'eva 2007:154. Località tipo - Feodosiya, Crimea, Ucraina. Tipo - Nessun esemplare noto.

Macrogobius cobitis (Pallas, 1814). Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium... v. 3, Sinonimo senior, nuova combinazione, nomenclatura ICZN non valida.

Gobius niger (non Linnaeus, 1758). In Couch 1863. Errore d'identificazione, nomenclatura ICZN non valida.

Gobius exanthematosus (non Pallas, 1814). In Rathke 1837. Errore d'identificazione, nomenclatura ICZN non valida.

Gobius algarbiensis de Brito Capello 1880. Memoria apresentada á Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. Lisboa. Comunicaciones del Museo Provincial de Ciencias. Catalogo Peizes Portugal. i-iii + 1-73. Comparso inizialmente come Gobius sp. ? in Brito Capello 1869:224. Sinonimo junior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Sinonimo di Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814, vedere Miller 1973:485, Miller 1990:934, Kottelat 1997:176. Località tipo - Mare di Lisbona, Setubal e Lagos, Portogallo. Tipo - Nessuno. Sintipi - Collocazione ignota.

Gobius exanthematosus var. gibbosus Ninni 1938. I Gobius del mari e delle acque interne d'Italia. Memoria, Comitato Talassografico Italiano No. 242: 1-169, Pls. 1-19. Sinonimo junior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Sinonimo di Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814, vedere Miller 1973:486, Kottelat 1997:176. Località tipo - Venezia, Italia. Tipo - Nessuno. Sintipi - Collocazione ignota.

Gobius guttatus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837. Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobioïdes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées. Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 12: i-xxiv + 1-507 + 1 p., Pls. 344-368. Catalogo - Bauchot et al. 1991:33. Sinonimo junior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Sinonimo di Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814, vedere Miller 1973:485, Miller 1990:934, Kottelat 1997:176. Località tipo - Sicilia, Italia. Tipo - essuno. Sintipi - MNHN A-1144, A-1147, A-1148.

Gobius limbatus Valenciennes, i837. In Cuvier & Valenciennes. Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobioïdes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées. Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 12: i-xxiv + 1-507 + 1 p., Pls. 344-368. Catalogo - Bauchot et al. 1991:35. Sinonimo junior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Sinonimo di Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814, vedere Miller 1973:485, Miller 1990:934, Kottelat 1997:176. Località tipo - Nizza, Département des Alpes-Maritimes, Francia, nord ovest del Mare Mediterraneo. Tipo - Olotipo (unico): MNHN A-1191.

Gobius spilogonurus Cocco, 1885. Indice ittiologico del mare di Messina. Il Naturalista Siciliano, Giornale di scienze naturali, v. 4: 25-29, 68-72, 85-88, 113-116, 177-180, 191-194, 228-232, 238-240, 291-294. Basato su un manoscritto non pubblicato di A. Cocco morto nel 1854. Compare anche come nomen nudum in Cocco 1846:750. Sinonimo junior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Discutibile sinonimo di Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814, vedere Miller 1973:485, Miller 1990:934, Kottelat 1997:176. Sinonimo di Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814, vedere i dati forniti da D. Hoese e H. K. Larson. Località tipo - Mare di Messina, Sicilia, Italia. Tipo Nessuno. Sintipi - Collocazione ignota.

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