Ponticola eurycephalus (Kessler, 1874)

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

Ponticola eurycephalus (Kessler, 1874)

A native marine/euryhaline species, found rarely along all Romanian Black Sea waters and more frequently in the Danube arms and in all the Delta, including the Razim complex ( Borcea 1934 [part of Gobius cephalarges (non) Pallas, 1814; fig. 27 at p. 69, reproduced by Bănărescu 1964, fig. 373 at p. 842, depicts this species— Manilo 2014]; Miller 1986; Oțel et al. 1994; Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007; Kottelat & Freyhof 2007; Vasilev et al. 2012; Yankova et al. 2014; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Manilo 2020; Năstase et al. 2022). Photographed by us underwater at Mangalia ( Fig. 7 ).

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FIGURE 7. Ponticola eurycephalus, photographed underwater at Mangalia, Black Sea, 2015, photo Al. Iftime.