gymnotrachelus, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1857:464 [Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou v. 30 (pt 2); ref. 18390] Dniester River and tributaries, especially Slutsch River, Ukraine. Syntypes: ZIN 2105 (1, not present in 1996). •Valid as Gobius gymnotrachelus Kessler 1857 -- (Kner 1864:78 [ref. 39513]). •Valid as Mesogobius gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Berg 1949:1098 [ref. 20662]). •Valid as Neogobius gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Miller 1973:502 [ref. 6888], Pinchuk 1977:593 [ref. 8999], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1061 [ref. 13677], Coad 1995:31 [ref. 23608], Kottelat 1997:178 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:755 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:139 [ref. 23591], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Pinchuk et al. 2003:265 [ref. 27349], Vasil'eva 2003:S49 [ref. 28444], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:230 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:183 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:105 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:580 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:163 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172 [ref. 31251], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:187 [ref. 31737]). •Valid as Ponticola gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Medvedev et al. 2013:705 [ref. 35208], Parin et al. 2014:498 [ref. 33547], Vasil'eva et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34347]). •Valid as Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857) -- (Neilson & Stepien 2009:97 [ref. 30487], Esmaeili et al. 2010:376 [ref. 33391], Freyhof 2011:282 [ref. 31742], Haertl et al. 2012:157 [ref. 37944], Stepien & Neilson 2013:2 [ref. 35325], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:896 [ref. 34062], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Esmaeili et al. 2017:78 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:59 [ref. 36089], Ćaleta et al. 2019:181 [ref. 37026], Özuluğ & Saç 2019:27 [ref. 36599], Zogaris et al. 2019:1 [ref. 36597], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37535], Manilo 2020:69 [ref. 37795], Tutman et al. 2020:4 [ref. 38008], Kvach et al. 2021:44 [ref. 38595], Parenti 2021:68 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2022:163 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2023:428 [ref. 40625], Nagy et al. 2023:358 [ref. 40348], Çiçek et al. 2024:299 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler 1857). Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Caspian Sea basins; invasive in Germany, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Greece; introduced elsewhere in eastern Europe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.
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