Benthophiloides brauneri

Benthophiloides brauneri
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Benthophilinae
Genus:	Benthophiloides
Species:	B. brauneri
Binomial name
	Benthophiloides brauneri; Beling & Iljin, 1927

Benthophiloides brauneri is a species of goby, a benthophilic fish native to the fresh and brackish waters of the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Azov as well as their surrounding rivers and estuaries. Despite the wide distribution, very few observations overall of this fish exist, and just one from the Caspian basin. It has been found in still waters at depths down to around 15 metres (49 ft). Males of this species can reach a length of 7.2 centimetres (2.8 in) SL while females only reach 5.1 centimetres (2.0 in) SL. This fish only lives for one year.^[2]^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Benthophiloides brauneri. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine>. Downloaded on 02 August 2013.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Benthophiloides brauneri". FishBase. April 2013 version.

External links

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World 2009
Fishes of the waters of Ukraine (in Russian)

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[IUCN-1] Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Benthophiloides brauneri. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine>. Downloaded on 02 August 2013.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Benthophiloides brauneri". FishBase. April 2013 version.

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