Benthophilinae
Subfamily of fishes
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The Benthophilinae are a subfamily of gobies endemic to the Ponto-Caspian region (including the Marmara, Black, Azov, Caspian, and Aral Seas).[1] The subfamily includes about 50 species. The representatives of the subfamily have fused pelvic fins and elongated dorsal and anal fins.[2] They are distinguished from the closely related subfamily Gobiinae by the absence of a swimbladder in adults and location of the uppermost rays of the pectoral fins within the fin membrane.[3]
| Benthophilinae | |
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| The pale monkey goby (Neogobius fluviatilis) and the dark bighead goby (Ponticola kessleri) are representatives of Benthophilinae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Benthophilinae Beling & Iljin, 1927 |
| Type genus | |
| Benthophilus Eichwald, 1831 | |
| Genera | |
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The Catalog of Fishes still considers these fishes as belonging to the subfamily Gobiinae.[4]
Systematics of the subfamily
- Tribe Benthophilini
- Tribe Neogobiini
- Neogobius (type genus)
- Tribe Ponticolini
- Babka
- Mesogobius
- Ponticola (type genus)
- Proterorhinus[5]
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