Ponticola
Ponticola is a genus of gobies native mostly to fresh waters of the Black Sea - Caspian Sea region in Eurasia. Some species occur in the brackish-water Black and Caspian seas themselves. It was considered to be part of the broader goby subfamily Benthophilinae, also endemic to the same region, although the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not list any subfamilies in the Gobiidae. Originally, Ponticola was described as subgenus of Neogobius.Species
There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:
- Ponticola bathybius
- Ponticola cephalargoides
- Ponticola constructor
- Ponticola cyrius
- Ponticola eurycephalus
- Ponticola gorlap
- Ponticola gymnotrachelus
- Ponticola iljini
- Ponticola iranicus Vasil'eva, Mousavi-Sabet & Vasil'ev, 2015
- Ponticola kessleri
- Ponticola platyrostris
- Ponticola ratan
- Ponticola rhodioni
- Ponticola rizensis
- Ponticola syrman
- Ponticola turani
