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Mesogobius batrachocephalus (Knout goby; Toad goby)

Synonyms: Gobius batrachocephalus (homotypic); Neogobius batrachocephalus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Mesogobius batrachocephalus, the knout goby or toad goby, is one of the species of gobiid fish native to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov basins. It lives in estuaries and brackish water lagoons, occasionally in fresh waters also. It prefers areas near cliffs with sandy, shelly or rocky substrates at depths of from 20 to 60 metres (66 to 197 ft), sometimes down to 100 metres (330 ft). The knout goby is a piscivore. It can reach a length of 34.5 centimetres (13.6 in) SL and weight of 600 grams (1.3 lb). Maximum known age is eight years.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Karadagskiy Zapovednik Nature Zapovednik 13876 Ukraine  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise)[2]

Consumers

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding ecology of knout goby (Mesogobius batrachocephalus Pallas, 1814) from the Romanian Black Sea (Agigea – Eforie Nord area), Irina Roşca and Ciprian Claudiu Mânzu, AACL Bioflux, 2011, Volume 4, Issue 2., p. 123-129
♦ 2THE DIET OF HARBOUR PORPOISE (PHOCOENA PHOCOENA) IN THE NORTHEAST ATLANTIC, M. B. SANTOS & G. J. PIERCE, Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 2003, 41, 355–390
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0