''Benthophiloides turcomanus'' is a tiny species of

gobiid Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising over 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most of gobiid fish are relatively small, typically less than in length, and the famil ...

fish native to the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, ...

. It is only known from two specimens collected from the waters of

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

at a depth of . The specimens, no longer than TL, have since been lost.

References

Benthophiloides Fish of Central Asia Fish of the Caspian Sea Fish described in 1941 Endemic fauna of the Caspian Sea {{Gobiidae-stub