Racer goby

Racer goby
The Racer Goby from the Bug River, Poland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Babka
Iljin, 1927
Species:
B. gymnotrachelus
Binomial name
Babka gymnotrachelus
(Kessler, 1857)
The range of the racer goby
Synonyms
  • Gobius gymnotrachelus Kessler, 1857
  • Mesogobius gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857)
  • Neogobius gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857)
  • Gobius macropus De Filippi, 1863
  • Gobius burmeisteri Kessler, 1877
  • Mesogobius gymnotrachelus otschakovinus Zubovich, 1925

The racer goby (Babka gymnotrachelus) is a species of goby native to fresh, sometimes brackish, waters, of the Black Sea basin.[2] It is a Ponto-Caspian relict species. The species is placed a monotypic genus, Babka, which was once considered a subgenus of genus Neogobius, but was then elevated to genus-status based on the molecular analysis.[3][4]

  1. ^ Freyhof, J.; Kottelat, M. (2008). "Babka gymnotrachelus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T188118A8643960. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T188118A8643960.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ Smirnov A.I. (1986) Perch-likes (gobiids), scorpionfishes, flatfishes, clingfishes, anglerfishes [in:] Fauna of Ukraine, Vol. 8, No 5, Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 320 pp. (in Russian)
  3. ^ Stepien CA, Tumeo MA (2006). "Invasion genetics of Ponto-Caspian gobies in the Great Lakes: a "cryptic" species, absence of founder effects, and comparative risk analysis". Biological Invasions. 8: 61–78. doi:10.1007/s10530-005-0237-x.
  4. ^ Neilson ME, Stepien CA (2009). "Escape from the Ponto-Caspian: Evolution and biogeography of an endemic goby species flock (Benthophilinae: Gobiidae: Teleostei)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (1): 84–102. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.023.