Benthophilus grimmi Kessler, 1877

Zarei, Fatah, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Abbasi, Keyvan, Kovačić, Marcelo, Schliewen, Ulrich K. & Stepien, Carol A., 2022, Gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) of the oldest and deepest Caspian Sea sub-basin: an evidence-based annotated checklist and a key for species identification, Zootaxa 5190 (2), pp. 151-193 : 166-167

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7120100

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scientific name

Benthophilus grimmi Kessler, 1877
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9. Benthophilus grimmi Kessler, 1877 View in CoL , Grimm’s Tadpole Goby

Benthophilus grimmi Kessler, 1877: 59 View in CoL , pl. V, fig. 13; type locality: South Caspian Sea , south of Baku, Azerbaijan; lectotype: BMNH 1897.7 . 5.15, paralectotypes: (7)? NMW 76987 (1) , SPU 394 [465/412] (1), ZIN 10893 (1).

Etymology: The specific name honors O. von Grimm, the Russian ichthyologist.

Distribution and habitat: Western part of the Middle Caspian Sea and the northwest South Caspian Sea from Chechen Island ( Russia) to south of Apsheron Peninsula, Azerbaijan ( Fig. 11A View FIGURE 11 ). Eurybathic, found over a considerable depth range, from 2–227 m under pleio-mesohaline conditions. It reportedly does not enter rivers ( Boldyrev & Bogutskaya 2007). No confirmed records from Iran.

IUCN: DD ( Bogutskaya 2020d).

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

ZIN

Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Gobiidae

Genus

Benthophilus

Loc

Benthophilus grimmi Kessler, 1877

Zarei, Fatah, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Abbasi, Keyvan, Kovačić, Marcelo, Schliewen, Ulrich K. & Stepien, Carol A. 2022
2022
Loc

Benthophilus grimmi

Kessler, K. T. 1877: 59
1877
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