Romanogobio antipai Bănărescu, 1953
Danube Delta gudgeon, Дълбоководна кротушка (Bulgarian), Porcușorul lui Antipa (Romanian), Пічкур-білопер Антипи (Ukrainian)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Romanogobio kessleri antipai Bănărescu, 1953; Gobio kessleri antipai Bănărescu, 1953
Conservation Status
Last record: 1958 (1960's?); 1992 (Bogutskaya et al., 2019)
Rediscovered in: 2016
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Bulgaria, Romania & Ukraine
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Five likely specimens (MIZ 18704-18708) are in the collection of Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Nowak et. al. 2009).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bănărescu, P. (1953). Variatia geografica, filogenia si ecologia Cyprinidului Gobio kessleri. Studii si cercetari stiintifice. Academia Republicii Populare Romine 4(1-2): 297-337.
Other references:
Bănărescu, P. (1992). A critical updated checklist of Gobioninae (Pisces, Cyprinidae).
Bănărescu, P. and Nalbant, T. T. (1973). Pisces, Teleostei. Cyprinidae (Gobioninae).
Bănărescu, P., Soric, V. and Economidis, P. (1999). In: Banarescu, P. (ed.) The freshwater fishes of Europe. Vol 5/1. Cyprinidae 2/I. Aula, Wiebelsheim.
Bogutskaya NG, Stefanov T, Naseka AM, Diripasko OA. (2019). A recent record of Romanogobio antipai (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae, Gobioninae) from the Danube River in Bulgaria. ZooKeys 825: 105-122.
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Nowak, Michal, Valentin Petrescu-Mag, I., Mierzwa, Dominika, and, Popek, Włodzimierz. (2009). On some interesting Romanian gudgeons (Cyprinidae: Romanogobio) found in the collection of Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS. AES Bioflux, 2009, Volume 1, Issue 2.
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