Ponticola cyrius

Ponticola cyrius, the Kura goby, is a species of gobiid fish endemic to the Kura River in the southern Caucasus countries of Georgia, Turkey,[3] Iran and Azerbaijan.[4] It reaches a length of 13 centimetres (5.1 in) SL.[4] It lives in the upper parts of the Kura River, Massuleh River and the Pasikhan River and in the Anzali Mordab (Iran). Downstream in Kura it is replaced by Ponticola gorlap.[4]

Ponticola cyrius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Ponticola
Species:
P. cyrius
Binomial name
Ponticola cyrius
(Kessler, 1874)
Synonyms
  • Gobius cyrius Kessler, 1874[2]
  • Neogobius cyrius (Kessler, 1874)
  • Gobius weidemanni Kessler, 1874

References
  1. Freyhof, J. (2014). "Ponticola cyrius". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19513722A19849649. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19513722A19849649.en.
  2. Kessler, K. T. 1874. A description of fishes belonging to the families common to both the Black and the Caspian seas. Trudy St. Petersburg. Obsh. Estestv. v. 5: 191-324, 1 pl.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Ponticola cyrius" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  4. Brian W. Coad Freshwater Fishes of Iran (accessed 18 Feb 2015)


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