WoRMS taxon details
Ponticola kessleri (Günther, 1861)
1021174 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1021174)
accepted
Species
Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861 · unaccepted
Gobius platycephalus Kessler, 1857 · unaccepted
Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861) · unaccepted
(of Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861) Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ponticola kessleri (Günther, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1021174 on 2026-07-12
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861) Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
original description (of Gobius platycephalus Kessler, 1857) Kessler, K. F. (1857). Nachträge zur Ichthyologie des südwestlichen Russlands. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.</em> v. 30 (pt 2): 453-481. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Gobius platycephalus Kessler, 1857) Kessler, K. F. (1857). Nachträge zur Ichthyologie des südwestlichen Russlands. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.</em> v. 30 (pt 2): 453-481. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Kesslers grondel | [details] |
| English | bighead goby [from synonym] | [details] |
| German | Kessler-Grundel [from synonym] | [details] |
| Lithuanian | Keslerio grundalas [from synonym] | [details] |
| Russian | бычок-головач [from synonym]Бычок головач [from synonym] | [details] |
| Turkish | kaya balığı [from synonym]kalınbaşlı kaya balığı [from synonym] | [details] |
| Ukrainian | Бичок-головач [from synonym]Бичок головач [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To Barcode of Life (47 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Gobius platycephalus Kessler, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ponticola kessleri)
To Fishbase (from synonym Gobius platycephalus Kessler, 1857)
To FishBase
To Fishbase (from synonym Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 84 proteins)
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861)
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Neogobius kessleri RAD108861-001) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Neogobius kessleri RAD108861-001) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To PESI (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To Barcode of Life (47 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Gobius platycephalus Kessler, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ponticola kessleri)
To Fishbase (from synonym Gobius platycephalus Kessler, 1857)
To FishBase
To Fishbase (from synonym Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 84 proteins)
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Gobius kessleri Günther, 1861)
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 84 proteins) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Neogobius kessleri RAD108861-001) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Neogobius kessleri RAD108861-001) (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
To PESI (from synonym Neogobius kessleri (Günther, 1861))
