''Ponticola cyrius'', the Kura goby, is a species 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
Kura River in the southern
Caucasus
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countries of
Georgia,
Turkey
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,
Iran
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and
Azerbaijan
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.
[Brian W. Coad]
Freshwater Fishes of Iran
(accessed 18 Feb 2015) It reaches a length of
SL.
[ It lives in the upper parts of the Kura River, Massuleh River and the Pasikhan River and in the Anzali Mordab (Iran). Downstream in Kura it is replaced by '']Ponticola gorlap
''Ponticola gorlap'', or the Caspian bighead goby, is a species of goby, a benthic fish native to the Caspian Sea basin. It is widespread in lower parts of many rivers in Iran, and also found in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.Brian W. CoadFreshwat ...
''.[
]
References
Ponticola
Freshwater fish of Western Asia
Taxa named by Karl Kessler
Fish described in 1874
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