''Benthophilus ctenolepidus'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

goby Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Traditionally most of the species called gobies have b ...

widespread along the southern coasts of the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia ...

: in the Gorgansky Bay, also from Absheron to Astara at south.

References

Benthophilus Fish of the Caspian Sea Fish of Western Asia Endemic fauna of the Caspian Sea Taxa named by Karl Kessler Fish described in 1877 {{Gobiidae-stub