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Gobies of the genus Rhinogobius (Gobiidae) from Primor’e and water bodies of Central Asia and Kazakhstan: I. Morphological characteristic and taxonomic status

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The taxonomic status of the investigated populations is estimated on the basis of morphological analysis of gobies of the genus Rhinogobius from waters of Primor’e, of gobies introduced with herbivorous fish to water bodies of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and of morphological traits of the known nominal species of this genus. The gobies from water bodies of Primor’e are attributed to the species R. sowerbyi Ginsburg, 1917 which was supposed to be a junior synonym of R. brunneus. The acclimatized gobies are attributed to R. cheni (Nichols, 1931) described from the Yangtze and not mentioned in literature for a long time. Detailed morphological characteristics of the studied populations, diagnoses, and present-day notions on distribution of both restored species are presented.

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Original Russian Text © E.D. Vasil’eva, 2007, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 733–742.

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Vasil’eva, E.D. Gobies of the genus Rhinogobius (Gobiidae) from Primor’e and water bodies of Central Asia and Kazakhstan: I. Morphological characteristic and taxonomic status. J. Ichthyol. 47, 691–700 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945207090020

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