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''Ponticola'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
gobies Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most of gobiid fish are relatively small, typically less than in length, and the ...
native mostly to fresh waters of the
Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...
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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 ...
region in
Eurasia Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelago ...
. Some
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occur in the brackish-water Black and Caspian seas themselves. It was considered to be part of the broader goby subfamily Benthophilinae, also
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 else ...
to the same region, although the 5th edition of '' Fishes of the World'' does not list any subfamilies in the
Gobiidae Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most of gobiid fish are relatively small, typically less than in length, and the ...
. Originally, ''Ponticola'' was described as subgenus of '' Neogobius''.


Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus: * '' Ponticola bathybius'' ( Kessler, 1877) * '' Ponticola cephalargoides'' ( Pinchuk, 1976) * '' Ponticola constructor'' ( Nordmann, 1840) (Caucasian goby) * '' Ponticola cyrius'' ( Kessler, 1874) * '' Ponticola eurycephalus'' ( Kessler, 1874) (Mushroom goby) * '' Ponticola gorlap'' ( Iljin, 1949) (Caspian bighead goby) * '' Ponticola gymnotrachelus'' ( Kessler, 1857) * '' Ponticola iljini'' ( Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1996) (Eastern Caspian bighead goby) Vasil’eva, E.D., Schwarzhans, W.W., Medvedev, D.A. & Vasil’ev, V.P. (2016): Cryptic Species of Ponto-Caspian Bighead Goby of the Genus ''Ponticola'' (Gobiidae). ''Journal of Ichthyology, 56 (1): 1-18.'' * '' Ponticola iranicus'' Vasil'eva, Mousavi-Sabet & Vasil'ev, 2015 * ''
Ponticola kessleri ''Ponticola kessleri'', the bighead goby or Kessler's goby, is a species of goby native to Eurasia. The bighead goby is a Ponto-Caspian Relict (biology), relict species. It inhabits the fresh water, fresh and brackish water, oligohaline waters, w ...
'' ( Günther, 1861) (Big-head goby) * '' Ponticola platyrostris'' (
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, 1814)
(Flat-snout goby) * '' Ponticola ratan'' ( Nordmann, 1840) (Ratan goby) * '' Ponticola rhodioni'' ( Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1994) (Riverine goby) * '' Ponticola rizensis'' ( Kovačić & Engin, 2008) * '' Ponticola syrman'' ( Nordmann, 1840) (Syrman goby) * '' Ponticola turani'' ( Kovačić & Engin, 2008) (Turan's goby)


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q753690 Benthophilinae