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

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.[1]

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 and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Gobio in FishBase. January 2016 version.
  2. 1 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.


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