Il ghiozzo testa di rospo, Mesogobius batrachocephalus  Pallas, 1814

Nomi comuni esteri - Spagnolo - Gobio sapo. Greco - Mesogovios. Inglese - Knout goby. Tedesco - Krötengrundel. Finnico - Konnatokko. Russo - Bychok-knut. Rumeno - Hanos, Stronghil. Bulgaro - Lechos. Turco - Kurbagakayasi baligi.

Gobius batrachocephalus 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 vols. [1811-1814]. Petropoli. Zool. Rosso-Asiatica i-vii + 1-428 + index (I-CXXV); v. 3 149. Status: nomenclatura originaria, non valida. Opinioni: nomenclatura valida come "Mesogobius batrachocephalus" (Pallas 1814), secondo Berg 1949:1096, Miller 1973:501 Pinchuk 1977:595, Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1055, Kottelat 1997:178, Reshetnikov et al. 1997:755, Vasil'eva 1998:136 con dubbio sul genere, Bilecenoglu et al. 2002:133, Vasil'eva 2003:S48, Pinchuk et al. in Miller 2004:109, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:226, Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:182. Vedere anche Coad 1995:30. Località tipo: Mar Nero sul Chersoneso e Balaklava, Crimea, Ucraina. Tipo: nessuno. Sintipi: attuale collocazione ignota.

Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas, 1814). Status: nuova nomenclatura, valida.

Neogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas, 1814). Status: nuova nomenclatura, non valida.

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