e and Water Bodies of Central Asia and Kazakhstan:
I. Morphological Characteristic and Taxonomic Status
E. D. Vasil’eva
Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, ul. Bol’shaya Nikitskaya 6, Moscow, 125009 Russia
e-mail: vas_katerina@mail.ru
Received May 7, 2007
Abstract—The taxonomic status of the investigated populations is estimated on the basis of morphological
analysis of gobies of the genus Rhinogobius from waters of Primor’e, of gobies introduced with herbivorous
fish to water bodies of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and of morphological traits of the known nominal species
of this genus. The gobies from water bodies of Primor’e are attributed to the species R. sowerbyi Ginsburg, 1917
which was supposed to be a junior synonym of R. brunneus. The acclimatized gobies are attributed to R. cheni
(Nichols, 1931) described from the Yangtze and not mentioned in literature for a long time. Detailed morpho-
logical characteristics of the studied populations, diagnoses, and present-day notions on distribution of both
restored species are presented.
DOI: 10.1134/S0032945207090020
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