Ponticola cephalargoides (Pinchuk, 1976)

Iftime, Alexandru & Oţel, Vasile, 2025, An annotated systematical checklist of the Romanian ichthyofauna, Zootaxa 5654 (1), pp. 1-64 : 25

Ponticola cephalargoides (Pinchuk, 1976)

A native marine species, found along all Romanian Black Sea waters ( Borcea 1934 [part of Gobius cephalarges (non) Pallas, 1814; figs. 18, 19 and 20 on plate III depict this species— Manilo 2014]; Miller 1986; Pinchuk et al. 2003; Vasil’eva 2007; Vasilev et al. 2012; Yankova et al. 2014; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Manilo 2020). Has declined in some areas of the Black Sea ( Pinchuk et al. 2003) and appears to be rare in Romanian waters. Photographed by us underwater at Mangalia ( Fig. 6 ).

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FIGURE 6. Ponticola cephalargoides, male with darkened coloration, photographed underwater at Mangalia, Black Sea, 2015, photo Al. Iftime.