brauneri, Benthophiloides Beling [D. E.] & Iljin [B. S.] 1927:309, Figs. 1-2, 5, 8 [Trav. Sta. Biol. Dniepre, Acad. Sci. Ukraine v. 3, livr. 7, no. 2; ref. 7211] Lower Dnieper River between Kherson and Kakhovka and southern Bug River between Novaya Odessa and Nikolayev, Ukraine. Syntypes: (34) ZIN 21989 (?). •Valid as Benthophiloides brauneri Beling & Iljin 1927 -- (Berg 1949:1107 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:490 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1024 [ref. 13677], Coad 1995:29 [ref. 23608], Kottelat 1997:175 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:752 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:127 [ref. 23591], Vasil'eva 2003:S42 [ref. 28444], Pinchuk & Miller in Miller 2004:153 [ref. 27853], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:181 [ref. 28369], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:554 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:149 [ref. 30517], Neilson & Stepien 2009:96 [ref. 30487], Esmaeili et al. 2010:376 [ref. 33391], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:184 [ref. 31737], Freyhof 2011:282 [ref. 31742], Parin et al. 2015:477 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:896 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:79 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:59 [ref. 36089], Manilo 2020:67 [ref. 37795], Parenti 2021:69 [ref. 38603], Zarei et al. 2022:164 [ref. 39576]). Current status: Valid as Benthophiloides brauneri Beling & Iljin 1927. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Sea of Azov and Black Sea basins, and Caspian Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.