Benthophiloides brauneri Beling et Iljin, 1927

Benthophiloides brauneri Beling et Iljin, 1927 View in CoL

A native, fresh- and brackish-water species, found in the lower Danube and its Delta ( Bănărescu 1964; Bănărescu 2005; Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007; Kottelat & Freyhof 2007; Cocan & MireȘan 2018); mentions in the southern Black Sea waters of Romania ( Nicolaev et al. 2004; Yankova et al. 2014) may be explained by the presence of the species in the Shabla-Ezerets coastal lake of Bulgaria ( Vasilev et al. 2012), whence specimens may have dispersed. A recent record of this species in the Danube, made from the Bulgarian side, pertains to common river waters marking the boundary with Romania ( Stefanov & Kutsarov 2018); an environmental DNA study claimed detection of this species’ presence in the lower Danube and the lower Prut in Romania ( Pont et al. 2021).