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Gobiidae
Western tubenose goby
Proterorhinus semilunaris
Goby Reaching Nine Centimeters
- Temperate
- Upper river
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Europe
- North America
- Small
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
SmallWestern tubenose goby is a freshwater fish from Euorpe. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 9 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Gobies and Allies
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Genus
- Proterorhinus
- Maximum length
- 9 cm
- Distribution
- Euorpe: Black Sea basin; Maritza and Struma drainages in eastern Aegean basin. In Danube, present up to about Vienna, invasive since 1970s, now reaching upstream to southern Germany. In South Bug and Dniepr native far upriver. Introduced to North America in 1991 through ballast of ships.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Order
Family
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