Genus Benthophilus Eichwald, 1831

226. Benthophilus abdurahmanovi Ragimov, 1978 [N]-[NE], Abdurakhmanov’s tadpole goby/Caspian Sea basin (Abbasi, 2017).

227. Benthophilus baeri Kessler, 1877 [N]-[NE], Baer pugolovka/Caspian Sea basin (Abbasi, 2017).

228. Benthophilus ctenolepidus Kessler, 1877 [N]- [NE], Transparent tadpole goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017a, 2018).

229. Benthophilus granulosus Kessler, 1877 [N]-[LC], Granular tadpole gobt, Granular pugolovka/Caspian Sea basin (Abbasi, 2017).

230. Benthophilus leobergius Berg, 1949 [N]-[LC], Caspian stellate tadpole gob /Caspian Sea basin (Abbasi, 2017; Zarei et al., 2021a).

231. Benthophilus macrocephalus (Pallas, 1787) [N]- [LC], Caspian tadpole goby, bighead tadpole goby/Caspian Sea basin (Abbasi, 2017).

232. Benthophilus pinchuki Ragimov, 1982 [N]-[NE], Pinchuk tadpole goby/Caspian Sea basin (Abbasi, 2017).