Rhinogobius lindbergi Berg, 1933

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5305 (1), pp. 1-69 : 44

Rhinogobius lindbergi Berg, 1933

[I] — Lindberg’s goby

Taxonomy. Original description: Rhinogobius similis lindbergi Berg 1933:654 , fig. 612 [Amur River and Ussuri River, Russia; no types known].—Synonyms: None.—Revisions: Berg (1949: 1078) as Rhinogobius similis lindbergi ; Gobius semilunaris Heckel, 1837 .—Illustration: Berg (1933: fig. 612) as Rhinogobius similis lindbergi .

Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Moravec and Amin (1978); confirmed by Coad (1981: 8; 2014: 319).—Turkish materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Türkiye: Khanabat River.—General distribution: East Asia: Amur River basin ( Russia and Heilongjiang, China); introduced introduced elsewhere.—Habitat: This species inhabits freshwater lakes and rivers. It lives in shallow areas of rivers with a weak current and rocky or sandy soils, in shallow water with sandy bottoms. This species feeds on small crustaceans, insect larvae, and fish eggs. Larvae of the goby are often found in the summer in planktonic gatherings when they are caught in mouth sections of the rivers. Freshwater, brackish.

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Reasons of introduction. Unknown: Inadvertently introduced by transboundary waterways for no known reason or method.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

Remarks. The specimens belong to genus Rhinogobius , previously been considered as Rhinogobius similis ( Moravec and Amin 1978; Coad 1981, 2014). According to Coad (2014) the identity of these exotics in Afghanistan require confirmation. e.g., recent work shown some Central Asian fish to be Rhinogobius cheni ( Nichols 1931) , according to Vasil’eva (2007) and Vasil’eva and Kuga (2008). Sadeghi et al. (2019) claimed that the introduced populations of in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, previously identified as R. similis might belong to R. lindbergi . Indeed, Zarei et al (2021) revealed that the introduced goby designated as R. lindbergi is in this area.