Racer goby
| Racer goby | |
|---|---|
| The Racer Goby from the Bug River, Poland | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Babka Iljin, 1927 |
| Species: | B. gymnotrachelus |
| Binomial name | |
| Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857) | |
| The range of the racer goby | |
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The racer goby (Babka gymnotrachelus) is a species of goby native to fresh, sometimes brackish, waters, of the Black Sea basin. It is a Ponto-Caspian relict species. The species is placed a monotypic genus, Babka, which was once considered a subgenus of genus Neogobius, but was then elevated to genus-status based on the molecular analysis.