Romanogobio kesslerii (Dybowski, 1862)

Iftime, Alexandru & Oţel, Vasile, 2025, An annotated systematical checklist of the Romanian ichthyofauna, Zootaxa 5654 (1), pp. 1-64 : 13

Romanogobio kesslerii (Dybowski, 1862)

A native, widespread freshwater rheophilic species, found in rivers from the plain to the low montane level, in extra-Carpathian drainages: Ialomița, Siret, presumably Prut as well ( Bănărescu 1964; Bănărescu 1999b [as Gobio kessleri kessleri ]; Nalbant 2003; Kottelat & Freyhof 2007; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Friedrich et al. 2018; Schmid 2023).

A caveat for hybridization/intergradation, as in the case of Gobio forms, should apply for all these R. kesslerii - split taxa/forms above (see Bogutskaya et al., 2019 for their extreme morphological closeness; Polyák et al. 2022; Nagy et al. 2023 for the treatment together of at least R. carpathorossicus and R. kesslerii ).