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Genus of fishes

Gobio
Gobio gobio
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Gobioninae
Genus: Gobio
G. Cuvier, 1816
Type species
Cyprinus gobio
Linnaeus, 1758

Gobio is a genus of typical gudgeons, ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae many of which are endemics of south-eastern Europe. Members of the genus are usually small fish, rarely longer than 10 cm.

Many species previously in Gobio are now placed in the sister genus Romanogobio.

Species

There are currently 46 recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gobio". FishBase. January 2016 version.
  2. ^ Turan, D., Japoshvili, B., Aksu, İ. & Bektaş, Y. (2016): Description of two new species of the genus Gobio (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Black Sea coast of Turkey. Zoology in the Middle East, 62 (2): 112-124.
  3. Turan, D., Kaya, C. Bayçelebi, E. Aksu, I. & Bektaş, Y. (2017): Gobio baliki, a new gudgeon from Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 4350 (2): 284–290.
  4. Mousavi-Sabet, H., Ganjbakhsh, B, Geiger, M.F. & Freyhof, J. (2016): Redescription of Gobio nigrescens from the Hari River drainage (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 4114: 71–80.
  5. Turan, D., Ekmekçi, F.G., Luskova, V. & Mendel, J. (2012): Description of a new species of genus Gobio from Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3257: 56–65.
  6. Li, S. (2015). Fishes of the Yellow River and Beyond. The Sueichan Press. p. 638. ISBN 9789578596771.
Taxon identifiers
Gobio


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