Apletodon bacescui is a species of clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae. The species is endemic to the Black Sea, where it is found in the south western part of the sea off Romania and Bulgaria, along the northern coast of Anatolia to central Turkey.[1] This species was described by Adriana Antoniu-Murgoci in 1940 from specimens collected by zoologist Mihai C. Bacescu (1908-1999) of the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest while he was dredging in the Black Sea.[3]

Apletodon bacescui
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiesociformes
Family: Gobiesocidae
Genus: Apletodon
Species:
A. bacescui
Binomial name
Apletodon bacescui
(Murgoci, 1940)
Synonyms[2]

Lepadogaster bacescui Murgoci, 1940

References edit

  1. ^ a b Williams, J.T.; Herler, J.; Kovacic, M. (2014). "Apletodon bacescui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T18258584A45100018. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T18258584A45100018.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Apletodon bacescui" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 June 2019.