Genus Ponticola Iljin, 1927 244. Ponticola cyrius (Kessler, 1874) [N]-[LC], Kura River goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017a, 2018). 245. Ponticola goebelii (Kessler, 1874) [N]-[NE], Caspian ratan or rotan goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017a, 2018). 246. Ponticola gorlap (Iljin, 1949) [N]-[LC], Caspian bighead goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017, 2018). 247. Ponticola hircaniaensis Zarei, Esmaeili, Kovačić, Schliewen & Abbasi, 2022 [E]-[NE], Hircaniaen bighead goby/Caspian Sea basin (Zarei et al., 2022). 248. Ponticola iranicus Vasil’eva, Mousavi-Sabet & Vasil’ev, 2015 [E]-[NE], Persian goby/Caspian Sea basin (Vasil’eva et al., 2015). 249. Ponticola patimari Eagderi, Nikmehr & Poorbagher, 2020 [E]-[NE], Patimar goby/Caspian Sea basin (Eagderi et al., 2020c). 250. Ponticola ratan (Nordmann, 1840) [N]-[NE], Ratan goby/Caspian Sea basin (Abbasi, 2017). 251. Ponticola syrman (Nordmann, 1840) [N]-[LC], Syrman goby/Caspian Sea basin (Esmaeili et al., 2017a, 2018).

Published as part of Eagderi, Soheil, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Nasri, Manoochehr, 2022, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran; a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2022, pp. 500-522 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 46 (6) on page 513, DOI: 10.55730/1300-0179.3104, http://zenodo.org/record/16584071