The Caspian stellate tadpole-goby (''Benthophilus leobergius''), also known as the starry goby,PIRI HOSSEIN, ENAYAT G. TAYEBE (2013
STUDY ON SOME BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STARRY GOBY (''BENTHOPHILUS STELLATUS LEOBERGIUS'' BERG 1949) IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CASPIAN SEA (GUILAN PROVINCE)
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species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of gobiid fish

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

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, ...

basin. It is widespread along all coasts of the Caspian Sea with exception of the central-eastern, and in the lowest part of the

Volga River The Volga (, ) is the longest river in Europe and the longest endorheic basin river in the world. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchment ...

. In the southern part of the basin, it is mentioned near the

Ogurja Ada Ogurja Ada (sometimes also spelt "Ogurga") is the largest island in both Turkmenistan and the Caspian Sea by area. Ogurja Island is also widely known by its Russian name Ogurchinskiy Island ''(Ostrov Ogurchinskiy)''. Geography Ogurja is a desert ...

, in the Gorgansky Bay, and in the

Sefīd-Rūd The Sepid-Rud (, ) (also known as Sefid-Rud) is a river, approximately long, rising in the Alborz mountain range of northwestern Iran and flowing generally northeast to empty into the Caspian Sea at Rasht. Names Other names and transcription ...

River. This species can reach a length of SL. The fish was named by Boris Ilyin after the ichthyologist and geographer Leo S. Berg, and properly taxonomically described by Berg himself the same year, then as a subspecies of '' Benthophilus stellatus'' (i.e. ''B. stellatus leobergius''). ''B. stellatus'' (Sauvage, 1874) - звездчатая пуголовка
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is a latinisation of Berg's name.

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Fish of Central Asia Fish of West Asia Fish of the Caspian Sea Fish of Russia Benthophilus Endemic fauna of the Caspian Sea Fish described in 1949 {{gobiidae-stub