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Common Name: tubenose goby
Synonyms and Other Names: P. marmoratus (Pallas 1814); See Stepien and Tumeo 2006 for name change.
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Characteristics were given by Berg (1949) and Miller (1986). This species is distinguished from the round goby by its long anterior nostrils (Miller 1986; Jude 1993). Miller (1986), Crossman et al. (1992), and Jude et al. (1992) provided characteristics to distinguish the round and tubenose gobies.
Size: 12.7 cm.
Native Range:
Slightly brackish to freshwater. Eurasia, including rivers and estuaries of Black and Caspian seas and Sea of Azov; also in rivers of northern Aegean, and Aral Sea (Miller 1986).
Nonindigenous Occurrences:
The species was introduced into the St. Clair River, Michigan. It was taken in several 1990 collection samples from the cove next to the Detroit Edison Company's Belle River Power Plant and near the intake structures (Jude et al. 1992; Jude 1993; Jude, personal communication; G. Smith, personal communication). As of 1994, it also had been found at the north end of Lake St. Clair at Anchor Bay (Cavender, personal communication). In July 1997, a single tubenose goby was captured in Lake Erie at Port Glasgow, Canada (ROM 70904) (A. Dextrase, personal communication). Since then, additional specimens have been found in the area (Kingsville Marsh) and the species is believed to be established on the northwestern shore of Lake Erie. These reports indicate the species has spread and may be present but undetected in Ohio waters. In 2001, a specimen was found in Duluth Harbor of western Lake Superior (Vanderploeg 2002). This species is also reported in Lake Huron (Cudmore-Vokey and Crossman 2000). Collected in Swan Creek, Monroe County in 2001 (Bowen, personal communication).
Means of Introduction: Introduced via ballast water.
Status: This species is believed to be established but rare in the St. Clair River, and in Lake St. Clair, Michigan (Jude 1993; Cavender, personal communication). Eggs attached to vegetation brought up during a trawl in 1994 were bought into a laboratory and hatched (Cavender, personal communication). This species is not spreading rapidly (Vanderploeg 2002).
Impact of Introduction: Tubenose goby do not feed on zebra mussels, as do round gobies. (Vanderploeg 2002). Tubenose gobies have been shown to have a significant overlap in diet preference with rainbow darters, Etheostoma caeruleum, and may compete with these native fish for food. (French and Jude 2001).
Remarks: The tubenose goby is native to the Black Sea basin. Within that basin it is widely dispersed, yet it is threatened in certain locale. The tubenose goby is considered endangered in Greece in the Ayannis spring near the town of Seres due to pollution and human-induced habitat change (Economidis 1995). In the Greek State, the tubenose goby is protected by law No. 67/1981 (Economidis 1995). This goby may live as long as five years (Jude 1993).
Berg, L. S. 1948-1949. Freshwater fishes of the U.S.S.R. and adjacent countries, 4th edition. Three volumes. Translated from Russian, 1962-1965, for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, Israel. Volume 1:504 pp.; volume 2:496 pp.; volume 3:510 pp.
Cavender, T. - Ohio State University, Museum of Biological Diversity, Columbus, OH.
Crossman, E. J., E. Holm, R. Cholmondeley, and K. Tuininga. 1992. First record for Canada of the rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, and notes on the introduced round goby, Neogobius melanostomus. Canadian Field-Naturalist 106(2):206-209.
Cudmore-Vokey, B. and E.J. Crossman. 2000. Checklists of the fish fauna of the Laurentian Great Lakes and their connecting channels. Can. MS Rpt. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2500: v + 39p.
Dextrase, A. - Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aquatic Ecosystems Branch, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Economidis, P. S. 1995. Endangered Freshwater Fishes of Greece. Biological Conservation. 72(2):201-211.
French, J. R P, III and D. J. Jude. 2001. Diets and Diet Overlap of Nonindigenous Gobies and Small Benthic Native Fishes Co-inhabiting the St. Clair River, Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 27(3): 300-311.
Jude, D.J. - University of Michigan and Freshwater Physicians, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI.
Jude, D. J. 1993. The alien goby in the Great Lakes Basin. Great Lakes Information Network (Online).
Jude, D. J., R. H. Reider, and G. R. Smith. 1992. Establishment of Gobiidae in the Great Lakes Basin. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 49:416-421.
Miller, P. J. 1986. Gobiidae. Pages 1019-1085 in P. J. P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot., J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen, E. Tortonese, editors. Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, volume III. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France.
Smith, G. - Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Stepien, C. A. and M. A. Tumeo. 2006. Invasion genetics of Ponto-Caspian gobies in the Great Lakes: a 'cryptic' species, absence of founder effects, and comparative risk analysis. Biological Invasions 8:61-78.
Vanderploeg, H. A., T. F. Nalepa, D. J. Jude, E. L. Mills, K. T. Holeck, J. R. Leibig, I. A, Grigorovich, and Henn Ojaveer. 2002. Dispersal and emerging ecological impacts of Ponto-Caspian species in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59:1209-1228.
Other Resources:
Great Lakes Water Life Photo Gallery
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Fuller, P., L. Nico, and E. Maynard
Contributing Agencies: 
NOAA - GLERL
Revision Date: 10/25/2007 Citation for this information:
Fuller, P., L. Nico, and E. Maynard. 2009. Proterorhinus semilunaris. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=714> Revision Date: 10/25/2007
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