Mesogobius
| Mesogobius | |
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| Mesogobius batrachocephalus, the knout goby | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Mesogobius Bleeker, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius batrachocephalus Pallas, 1814
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Mesogobius is one of the genera of benthophiline gobiid fishes native to the basins of the Black and Caspian Seas.
Species
There are two or three recognized species in this genus:.[1][2]
- Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Pallas, 1814) (Knout goby)
- Mesogobius nigronotatus (Kessler, 1877) (? = M. nonultimus)[2]
- Mesogobius nonultimus (Iljin, 1936)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Mesogobius". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ a b Brian W. Coad Freshwater Fishes of Iran (accessed 18 Feb 2015)