Contents

Journal of Ichthyology

Vol. 56, No. 1, 2016

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Journal of Ichthyology ISSN 0032-9452.

Cryptic Species of Ponto-Caspian Bighead Goby of the Genus PONTICOLA (GOBIIDAE)

E. D. Vasil’eva, W. W. Schwarzhans, D. A. Medvedev and V. P. Vasil’ev p. 1  abstract

Revision of the Genus Melamphaes (Melamphaidae). 5. Oligo-Raker Species: M. indicus, M. eurous, and M. typhlops

A. N. Kotlyar p. 19  abstract

Revalidation of the Eggvin Lumpsucker Eumicrotremus eggvinii (Cyclopteridae) and its New Finding near Franz Josef Land (Barents Sea)

O. S. Voskoboinikova and N. V. Chernova p. 31  abstract

Differentiation of Three Species of the Genus Upeneus (Mullidae) Based on Otolith Shape Analysis

D. A. Pavlov p. 37  abstract

Intraspecies structure of beaked redfish Sebastes mentella of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans

S. P. Melnikov p. 52  abstract

Ichthyofauna of russian exclusive economic zone of the Bering sea: 2. Ecological and zoogeographical characteristics

A. V. Datsky p. 72  abstract

First Data on the Biology of Hadropareia middendorffii (Perciformes, Zoarcidae) in the Tauysk Bay, the Sea of Okhotsk

E. A. Poezzhalova-Chegodaeva p. 89  abstract

Feeding of Pelagic Fish in Waters of Mauritania: 2. Representatives of Families Carangidae, Scombridae, Pomatomidae, and Trichiuridae

A. V. Gushchin and A. Corten p. 98  abstract

Food and Feeding Habits of Black Scorpionfish, Scorpaena porcus (Osteichthyes: Scorpaenidae) from the Northern Coast of Tunisia (central Mediterranean)

S. Rafrafi-Nouira, O. El Kamel-Moutalibi, M. Boumaïza, C. Reynaud and C. Capapé p. 107  abstract

Specific Biological Features and Genetic Variation of Chinese Sleeper Perccottus glenii (Odontobutidae) in Aquatic Bodies of Tyumen Oblast

O. N. Zhigileva and A. A. Kulikova p. 124  abstract

Evaluation of Buoyancy Dynamics in the Early Ontogenesis of Climbing Perch Anabas testudineus (Anabantidae)

K. F. Dzerzhinskiy p. 133  abstract

State of Steroid Secretory Cells and Concentration of Gonadal Steroid Hormones in the Blood Plasma of Siberian Sturgeon Acipenser baerii and Sterlet A. ruthenus (Acipenseridae) During Sex Differentiation

M. V. Mosyagina and O. V. Zelennikov p. 141  abstract

Effect of pH on the Proteinase Activities in the Intestine Mucosa, Chyme, and Enteral Microbiota in the Piscivorous Fish Differing in their Ecological Traits

V. V. Kuz’mina, G. V. Zolotareva and V. A. Sheptitskii p. 147  abstract

Brief Communications

Preliminary Annotated List of Species of the Family Chaetodontidae (Actinopterygii) from Ly Son Islands (South China Sea, Central Vietnam)

D. A. Astakhov, O. V. Savinkin, S. A. Ponomarev, Lai Duy Phuong and Dao Duy Thu p. 154  abstract

Siganidae, a New Family of Fishes for the Russian Fauna

A. Yu. Kravchenko and A. A. Semenchenko p. 159  abstract

Gobius cruentatus (Gobiidae) in Russian Waters of the Black Sea Coast of the Caucasus

A. M. Prokofiev p. 162  abstract

Population Characteristic of the Volga zander SANDER VOLGENSE (PERCIDAE) in the Kuibyshev Reservoir

R. R. Saifullin and F.M. Shakirova p. 166  abstract

Photopreferendum of Migratory and Nonmigratory Larvae of European River Lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis

A. O. Zvezdin, D. S. Pavlov, D. Yu. Nazarov and A. V. Kucheryavyy p. 171  abstract