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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2058 | Berg, L.S., 1965. Freshwater fishes of the U.S.S.R. and adjacent countries. volume 3, 4th edition. Israel Program for Scientific Translations Ltd, Jerusalem. (Russian version published 1949). | 1965 | Benthophilus grimmi kessleri | 205 |
| 54621 | Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2005. Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of May 2005. Database dump. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in May 2005. | 2005 | Benthophilus kessleri | --> |
| 58669 | Boldyrev, V.S. and N.G. Bogutskaya, 2007. Revision of the tadpole-gobies of the genus Benthophilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 18(1):31-96. | 2007 | Benthophilus kessleri | 47;fig. 18 |
| 128868 | Beolens, B., M. Grayson and M. Watkins, 2023. Eponym dictionary of Fishes. Dunbeath, Caithness (Scotland, UK): Whittles Publishing Limited, 1300 p. | 2023 | Benthophilus kessleri | 702-703 |