Genus Ponticola Iljin, 1927

244. Ponticola cyrius (Kessler, 1874) [N]-[LC], Kura River goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017a, 2018).

245. Ponticola goebelii (Kessler, 1874) [N]-[NE], Caspian ratan or rotan goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017a, 2018).

246. Ponticola gorlap (Iljin, 1949) [N]-[LC], Caspian bighead goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017, 2018).

247. Ponticola hircaniaensis Zarei, Esmaeili, Kovačić, Schliewen & Abbasi, 2022 [E]-[NE], Hircaniaen bighead goby/Caspian Sea basin (Zarei et al., 2022).

248. Ponticola iranicus Vasil’eva, Mousavi-Sabet & Vasil’ev, 2015 [E]-[NE], Persian goby/Caspian Sea basin (Vasil’eva et al., 2015).

249. Ponticola patimari Eagderi, Nikmehr & Poorbagher, 2020 [E]-[NE], Patimar goby/Caspian Sea basin (Eagderi et al., 2020c).

250. Ponticola ratan (Nordmann, 1840) [N]-[NE], Ratan goby/Caspian Sea basin (Abbasi, 2017).

251. Ponticola syrman (Nordmann, 1840) [N]-[LC], Syrman goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017a, 2018).