Racer goby | |
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The Racer Goby from the Bug River, Poland | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Gobiidae |
Genus: | Babka Iljin, 1927 |
Species: | B. gymnotrachelus
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Binomial name | |
Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857)
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The range of the racer goby | |
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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]