FB-69762 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69762 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae Chelonodontops Chelonodontops alvheimi Psomadakis, Matsuura & Thein, 2018 2022-07-12 2022-07-12 Kovačić, M., H.R. Esmaeili, F. Zarei, K. Abbasi and U.K. Schliewen0 A new species of tadpole-goby, Benthophilus persicus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southern Caspian Sea. Zootaxa 4980(1):45-63. (Ref. 126576) FB-GeneralDescr-69772 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-14 00:00:00 2022-07-14 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69772 Inhabits brackish waters and is abundant on sandy bottoms in coastal areas (Ref. 126576). Kovačić, M., H.R. Esmaeili, F. Zarei, K. Abbasi and U.K. Schliewen 2021 A new species of tadpole-goby, Benthophilus persicus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southern Caspian Sea. Zootaxa 4980(1):45-63. (Ref. 126576) FB-DiagnosticDescr-69772 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-14 00:00:00 2022-07-14 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69772 This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the following characters: behind the jaws is a dermal fold, well-developed, large and rectangular; chin barbel, moderate size 1/3-2/3 of eye diameter; maximum body width 15.1-22.9% of SL; mouth width 36.3-55.8% of head length; D2 I,7-8; origin of anal fin is in front of vertical through origin of second dorsal fin; with dermal tubercles, clearly larger than granules, with two posterior rows of spinules forming an acute, always less than right angle; dorsal row of tubercles complete, 22-29; ventral row of tubercles 22-25; no ventrolateral row of tubercles; tubercles absent on temporal and occipital head regions; no granules on flanks; transversal suborbital row 6i below posterior end of row b; anterior interorbital transversal row pa with one or two papillae, anterior interorbital transversal row pp with two or three papillae; body with 20-22 transversal ltm rows starting anteriorly behind pectoral axilla and alternating anteriorly with three longitudinal llm rows (Ref. 126576). Kovačić, M., H.R. Esmaeili, F. Zarei, K. Abbasi and U.K. Schliewen 2021 A new species of tadpole-goby, Benthophilus persicus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southern Caspian Sea. Zootaxa 4980(1):45-63. (Ref. 126576) FB-Morphology-69772 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-14 00:00:00 2022-07-14 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69772 Dorsal spines (total): 4 - 5; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7 - 8; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 7 - 8 Kovačić, M., H.R. Esmaeili, F. Zarei, K. Abbasi and U.K. Schliewen 2021 A new species of tadpole-goby, Benthophilus persicus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southern Caspian Sea. Zootaxa 4980(1):45-63. (Ref. 126576) FB-Distribution-69772 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-14 00:00:00 2022-07-14 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69772 Eurasia: Southern Caspian Sea. Kovačić, M., H.R. Esmaeili, F. Zarei, K. Abbasi and U.K. Schliewen 2021 A new species of tadpole-goby, Benthophilus persicus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southern Caspian Sea. Zootaxa 4980(1):45-63. (Ref. 126576) FB-Size-69772 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-14 00:00:00 2022-07-14 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69772 4.7 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 126576)) Kovačić, M., H.R. Esmaeili, F. Zarei, K. Abbasi and U.K. Schliewen 2021 A new species of tadpole-goby, Benthophilus persicus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southern Caspian Sea. Zootaxa 4980(1):45-63. (Ref. 126576) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-69772 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2022-07-14 00:00:00 2022-07-14 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=69772 demersal; brackish; depth range 6 - 70 m (Ref. 126576) Kovačić, M., H.R. Esmaeili, F. Zarei, K. Abbasi and U.K. Schliewen 2021 A new species of tadpole-goby, Benthophilus persicus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southern Caspian Sea. Zootaxa 4980(1):45-63. (Ref. 126576)