New data on the historical and expanded range of Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas, 1814) (Teleostei: Gobiidae) in eastern Europe

Abstract

A review of historical and recent area of distribution of tubenose goby Proterorhinus marmoratus was undertaken using critical analysis of published literature, data from two large fish collections (Natural History Museum, Kiev, Ukraine, and Zoological Institute, St Petersburg, Russia), personal collections of the authors sampled during extensive field activities in 1998-2004, and unpublished reports of the Institute of Lake and River Fisheries in Volgograd. Historically, riverine P. marmoratus from the Black Sea-Azov basin were distributed in the upper reaches of the rivers Dnieper and the Don even before the construction of water retention structures; this form at present has demonstrated only limited upstream range expansion. The native ÔCaspian tubenose gobyÕ is mostly connected with sea and delta habitats. We adduce some arguments for the tubenose goby's recent invasion of the Middle and Upper Volga as a result of introductions of the Don-Azov riverine form rather than upstream dispersal of the Caspian marine form.

Further studies of mitochondrial genome variability in Ponto-Caspian <I>Proterorhinus</I> species (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae) and their taxonomic implications

“…Consequently, these tubenose gobies could spread from the Dnieper River basin through Severo-Krymskyi channel connected the Dnieper River and Crimean freshwaters and then widely distributed through smaller channels. It should be mentioned that P. semilunaris is characterized by rapid colonization of new habitats (Naseka et al 2005, Prášek and Jurajda 2005, Manné and Poulet 2008. Another possible source of the penetration of north-western gobies in Crimean Peninsula could be an accidental introduction caused by acts on acclimatization of economic-valuable fishes in Crimean reservoirs.…”

“…According to these data, both "marine" and "freshwater" Black Sea lineages should be treated as euryhaline species dwelling in waters with salinity varying from 0 ppt in rivers and reservoirs up to 18.2 ppt in Donuzlav Lake and several Black Sea bays (Kuftarkova et al 2008, Manilo 2009a). It should be also emphasized that specimens from both phylogenetic lineages are commonly found in marine bays and estuaries (Miller 2004, Naseka et al 2005, Antsulevich 2007, Manilo 2009a, where the salinity changes regularly. For example, the water salinity of the Sevastopol Bay, where we collected numerous samples of tubenose gobies ("marine" clade according this study) at the Chornaya River mouth in July 2008, varies in different parts, levels and seasons from 9.72 to 18.32 ppt (Ivanov et al 2006).…”

Competitive interactions for food resources between invasive racer goby Babka gymnotrachelus and native European bullhead Cottus gobio

“…So far, six gobiid species have been recorded in Europe as non-native species, including bighead goby Ponticola kessleri, Caspian bighead goby P. gorlap, monkey goby Neogobius fluviatilis, racer goby Babka gymnotrachelus, round goby N. melanostomus and Western tubenose goby Proterorhinus semilunaris. These species have invaded or expanded their range in large European rivers such as the Danube (Ahnelt et al 1998(Ahnelt et al , 2001Kautman 2001;Naseka et al 2005), Rhine (Freyhof 2003;van Kessel et al 2009), Vistula (Grabowska et al 2008) and Volga (Copp et al 2005). The Ponto-Caspian gobies are relatively small (up to 15-20 cm total length), bottom-dwelling species that are usually associated with crevice habitats, though some invading populations have been reported to have established in sandy areas (Sapota 2004).…”

Non-native fish in Belarusian and Polish areas of the European central invasion corridor

“…Similar extensive upstream migration of these fish was observed along the rivers Don (Naseka et al 2005) and the Danube (Ahnelt et al 1998;Prášek, Jurajda 2005). Some of them have extended farther to the west through the opening of the Danube-Main-Rhine canal (van Beek 2006, von Landwüst 2006.…”

“…2007, Grabowska et al 2008). Prior to 1970, the tubenose goby was found only in the lower River Dnieper (Smirnov 1986), but by 1985, it had entered the Kiev Reservoir (Smirnov 1986, Naseka et al 2005. Although not found in the Belarus Pripyat survey in 1993 (Gulugin, Kunitsky 1999), they were found in August 2007 for the first time in the middle and upper sections close to the Dnieper-Bug Canal (Rizevsky et al 2007), between sites 4 and 8, with the highest numbers recorded at the river port of Mykashevichy (Table 1).…”