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Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas, 1814)

Nomi comuni esteri - Spagnolo - Gobio sapo. Greco - Mesogovios. Inglese - Knout goby. Tedesco - Krötengrundel. Finlandia - Konnatokko. Federazione Russa - Bychok-knut. Romania - Hanos, Stronghil. Bulgaria - Lechos. Turchia - Kurbagakayasi baligi.

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

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 vol. [1811-1814]. Petropoli. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium ... v. 3: i-vii + 1-428 + index (I-CXXV), Pls. 1, 13, 14, 15, 20 and 21. Sinonimo senior, combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Nomenclatura specifica valida come Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas 1814), vedere 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 riguardo al 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, Fricke et al. 2007:105, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:573, Vasil'eva 2007:160, Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172, Neilson & Stepien 2009:97. Località tipo - Mar nero nei pressi del Chersoneso [Kherson] e Balaklava, Crimea, Ukcraina. Tipo - Nessuno. Sintipi - irreperibili. Vedere Coad 1995:30.

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

Gobius batrachocephalus borysthenis Pinchuk, 1963. Sea and lagoon forms of the knout goby of the north-western part of the Black Sea. Dopov. Nauk URSR v. 1. Nomenclatura sottospecifica non valida secondo i criteri ICZN. Opinioni - Sinonimo di Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas 1814), vedere Neilson & Stepien 2009:97.

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