Animalia > Chordata > Actinopterygii > Perciformes > Gobiidae > Neogobius > Neogobius melanostomus | Neogobius melanostomus (Round goby; Ginger goby; Caspian round goby; Black spotted goby) | |
Synonyms: Apollonia melanostoma; Gobius affinis; Gobius cephalarges; Gobius chilo; Gobius exanthematosus; Gobius grossholzii; Gobius lugens; Gobius melanio; Gobius melanostomus; Gobius sulcatus; Gobius virescens; Neogobius cephalarges; Neogobius cephalarges cephalarges; Neogobius melanostoma; Neogobius melanostomus affinis; Ponticola cephalarges Language: Bulgarian; Danish; Estonian; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Latvian; Lithuanian; Mandarin Chinese; Persian; Polish; Romanian; Russian; Spanish; Turkish The round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is a euryhaline bottom-dwelling goby of the family Gobiidae, native to central Eurasia including the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Round gobies have established large non-native populations in the Baltic Sea, several major Eurasian rivers, and the North American Great Lakes. |
Neogobius melanostomus is a bottom dweller found in rivers and near the shore of lakes, preferring rocky habitats with many places to hide. It preys on small fish, such as darters and the eggs of lake trout, and many other fish. Adult Neogobius melanostomus aggressively defend spawning sites and will occupy prime spawning areas, preventing native species from utilising these sites. This fish may out-compete native fish for food resources, due to its ability to feed in darkness. Neogobius melanostomus often eats bivalves that filter water and becomes a vector of bioaccumulation, with contaminants becoming passed on to the larger game fish or humans that eat them. There is little information on successful management options for this species. |
Adult Length [2] | 10 inches (25 cm) | Brood Dispersal [2] | In a nest | Brood Egg Substrate [2] | Speleophils (cavity generalist) | Brood Guarder [2] | Yes | Litter Size [2] | 1,000 | Maximum Longevity [2] | 4 years | Water Biome [1] | Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Brackish Water |  | Diet [1] | Carnivore |  | Female Maturity [2] | 2 years | Male Maturity [3] | 3 years 6 months |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
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Laurentian Great Lakes |
Canada, United States |
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Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
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St. Lawrence |
Canada, United States |
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Upper Mississippi |
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Institutions (Zoos, etc.) | Maps America, North - Inland waters; Aral Sea; Asia - Inland waters; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic, Northeast; Austria; Azerbaijan; Baltic Sea; Black Sea; Bulgaria; Canada; Caspian Sea; Danube; Don; Estonia; Europe - Inland waters; Europe: Sea of Azov, Black Sea and Caspian basins. Adverse ecological impact after introduction have been reported by several countries.; Europe: Sea of Azov, Black Sea and Caspian basins. Adverse ecological impact after introduction have been reported by several countries. In 2004, this was accidentally introduced in North America with ballast water in ships (Ref. 59043).; Georgia; Germany, Fed. Rep.; Great Lakes; Iran (Islamic Rep. of); Kazakhstan; Kuban River; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Nearctic; Netherlands; Palearctic; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Sea of Marmara; Serbia and Montenegro; Turkey; Turkmenistan; USA (contiguous states); Ukraine; Uzbekistan; Volga; Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5Diet composition of two gobiid species in the Khadzhibey Estuary (North-Western Black Sea, Ukraine), Sergiy Kudrenko, Yuriy Kvach, ACTA UNIVERSITATIS NICOLAI COPERNICI PRACE LIMNOLOGICZNE NR 24 – LIMNOLOGICAL PAPERS N° 24 NAUKI MATEMATYCZNO-PRZYRODNICZE – ZASZYT 112 – TORUŃ 2005 ♦ 6FEEDING ECOLOGY OF SOME BENTHIC FISH SPECIES FROM THE ROMANIAN BLACK SEA COAST (AGIGEA-EFORIE NORD AREA), Irina ROȘCA and Victor SURUGIU, Analele Științifice ale Universității „Al. I. Cuza” Iași, s. Biologie animală, Tom LVI, 2010 ♦ 7Food Habits of Four Bottom-Dwelling Gobiid Species at the Confluence of the Danube and Hron Rivers (South Slovakia), Zdeněk Adámek, Jaroslav Andreji, José Martín Gallardo, International Review of Hydrobiology,
Volume 92, Issue 4-5, pages 554–563, August 2007 ♦ 8NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory♦ 9THE DIET OF HARBOUR PORPOISE (PHOCOENA PHOCOENA) IN THE NORTHEAST ATLANTIC, M. B. SANTOS & G. J. PIERCE, Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 2003, 41, 355390 ♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 WWF WildFINDER |
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