Romanogobio
Encyclopedia
Romanogobio is a genus
of cyprinid
fish found in Europe
and Asia
. There are currently 18 described species in this genus, including the extinct R. antipai.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of cyprinid
Cyprinid
The family Cyprinidae, from the Ancient Greek kyprînos , consists of the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives . Commonly called the carp family or the minnow family, its members are also known as cyprinids...
fish found in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. There are currently 18 described species in this genus, including the extinct R. antipai.
Species
- Romanogobio albipinnatus (Lukasch, 1933) (White-finned gudgeon)
- Romanogobio amplexilabris (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1973)
- †Romanogobio antipai (Bănărescu, 1953)
- Romanogobio banaticus (Bănărescu, 1960)
- Romanogobio belingi (Slastenenko, 1934)
- Romanogobio benacensis (Pollini, 1816)
- Romanogobio ciscaucasicus (L. S. Berg, 1932) (North Caucasian long-barbelled gudgeon)
- Romanogobio elimeius (Kattoulas, Stephanidis & Economidis, 1973)
- Romanogobio johntreadwelli (Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1973)
- Romanogobio kesslerii (Dybowski, 1862) (Kessler's gudgeon)
- Romanogobio macropterus (Kamensky, 1901)
- Romanogobio parvus Naseka & Freyhof, 2004
- Romanogobio pentatrichus Naseka & Bogutskaya, 1998 (Kuban long-barbelled gudgeon)
- Romanogobio persus (Günther, 1899) (Kura gudgeon)
- Romanogobio tanaiticus Naseka, 2001 (Don whitefin gudgeon)
- Romanogobio tenuicorpus (MoriTamezo Mori, was a Japanese naturalist in Korea while it was under Japanese Rule . He taught at a prep school for Keijō Imperial University in Seoul, Korea from 1909 until he was expelled by the American forces in 1945. Primarily an ichthyologist, he published numerous works on the zoology of the Korean...
, 1934) (Amur whitefin gudgeon) - Romanogobio uranoscopus (AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
, 1828) (Danubian long-barbelled gudgeon) - Romanogobio vladykovi (P. W. Fang, 1943)