The Caspian stellate tadpole-goby (''Benthophilus leobergius''), also known as the starry goby,PIRI HOSSEIN, ENAYAT G. TAYEBE (2013
STUDY ON SOME BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STARRY GOBY (''BENTHOPHILUS STELLATUS LEOBERGIUS'' BERG 1949) IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CASPIAN SEA (GUILAN PROVINCE)
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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 ...

of gobiid fish

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to 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 ...

basin. It is widespread along all coasts of the Caspian Sea with exception of the central-eastern, and in the lowest part of the

Volga River The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the List of rivers of Europe#Rivers of Europe by length, longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Cas ...

. In the southern part of the basin, it is mentioned near the Ogurja Ada, in the Gorgansky Bay, and in the

Sefīd-Rūd The Sefid-Rud ( fa, سفیدرود, lit=white river, glk, اسپي بيه, ''Espī bīeh'') (also known as Sepid-Rud) is a river approximately long, rising in the Alborz mountain range of northwestern Iran and flowing generally northeast to ent ...

River. This species can reach a length of SL. The fish was named by Boris Ilyin after the ichthyologist and geographer Leo S. Berg, and properly taxonomically described by Berg himself the same year, then as a subspecies of '' Benthophilus stellatus'' (i.e. ''B. stellatus leobergius''). ''B. stellatus'' (Sauvage, 1874) - звездчатая пуголовка
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is a latinisation of Berg's name.

References

Fish of Central Asia Fish of Western Asia Fish of the Caspian Sea Fish of Russia Benthophilus Endemic fauna of the Caspian Sea Fish described in 1949 {{gobiidae-stub