Northern whitefin gudgeon
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Gobionidae |
| Genus: | Romanogobio |
| Species: | R. belingi
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| Romanogobio belingi (Slastenenko, 1934)
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The northern whitefin gudgeon (Romanogobio belingi)[2] is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae, the gudgeons.[3] It is distributed in the northern Black Sea basin (Dniester, Southern Bug, and Dnieper riverine systems), and 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.
It is named in honor of Demeter (Dimitry) E. Beling, director of the Dnieper Biological Station, and an authority on Ukrainian fishes frequently cited in Slastenenko's paper.[4]
References
- ^ Freyhof, J. (2024). "Romanogobio belingi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024 e.T135668A135110020. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T135668A135110020.en. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. 646 p.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Romanogobio". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
Further reading
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Romanogobio belingi". FishBase. November 2014 version.