Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859)

Iftime, Alexandru & Oţel, Vasile, 2025, An annotated systematical checklist of the Romanian ichthyofauna, Zootaxa 5654 (1), pp. 1-64 : 38

Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859)

A native fresh- and brackish-water species, found along the Danube and its backwaters all along its Romanian course, its tributaries and associated lakes in the plains of southern Romania as well as the Prut and the lower Siret, also the Danube Delta , the Danube mouths in the sea, the Razim lagoon complex and some littoral lakes ( Băcescu & Mayer, 1956; Bănărescu 1964; Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007; Radu et al. 2008; Yankova et al. 2014; Năstase et al. 2022).

Fam. Cottidae

Cottus gobio Linnaeus, 1758

A native, freshwater, mainly rheophilic species found in both intra- and extra-Carpathian drainages, in montane waters along (almost) all the Romanian Carpathian range ( Bănărescu 1964; Freyhof et al. 2005; Kottelat & Freyhof 2007; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Polyák et al. 2022; Nagy et al. 2023).