Northern whitefin gudgeon

Northern whitefin gudgeon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Romanogobio
Species:
R. belingi
Binomial name
Romanogobio belingi
(Slastenenko, 1934)
Synonyms
  • Gobio belingi Slastenenko, 1934

The northern whitefin gudgeon (Romanogobio belingi)[2] is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in the northern Black Sea basin (Dniester, Southern Bug, and Dnieper riverine systems), southern Baltic Sea basin (Oder, Vistula), southern North Sea basin (Elbe, Rhine). Also, reports from lakes Ilmen and Ladoga and its basins have been made, which are questionable. Their maximal length is 11.5 cm, with a maximal reported age of 5 years.

Named in honor of Demeter (Dimitry) E. Beling, Director of the Dnieper Biological Station, authority on Ukrainian fishes frequently cited in Slastenenko’s paper. [3]

  1. ^ Freyhof, J. (2011). "Romanogobio belingi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2011: e.T135668A4175041. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135668A4175041.en.
  2. ^ Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. 646 p.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 March 2021.