BioInvasions Records (2021) Volume 10, Issue 3: 701–709 CORRECTED PROOF Rapid Communication Molecular analysis reveals the invasion of eastern tubenose goby Proterorhinus nasalis De Filippi, 1863 (Perciformes: Gobiidae) into the Baltic Sea Andro Truuverk1, Imre Taal2, Redik Eschbaum2, Anu Albert2, Aare Verliin2, Katariina Kurina2 and Lauri Saks2,* 1Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014, Tartu, Estonia 2Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46A, 51014 Tartu, Estonia Author e-mails:
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[email protected] (LS) *Corresponding author Citation: Truuverk A, Taal I, Eschbaum R, Albert A, Verliin A, Kurina K, Saks L Abstract (2021) Molecular analysis reveals the invasion of eastern tubenose goby We report the first confirmed record of the invasive alien species, eastern tubenose Proterorhinus nasalis De Filippi, 1863 goby Proterorhinus nasalis (De Filippi, 1863) in the Baltic Sea as a first verified (Perciformes: Gobiidae) into the Baltic record of this species outside Azov and Caspian Sea basins and the Volga River Sea. BioInvasions Records 10(3): 701–709, system. Several tubenose gobies with inconclusive morphometrical characteristics https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2021.10.3.20 were caught from the Narva Bay, eastern part of Gulf of Finland in September 2020. Received: 8 March 2021 Phylogenetic analysis of caught individuals confirmed their taxonomic classification Accepted: 28 April 2021 as Proterorhinus nasalis. Relatively high abundance of tubenose gobies hints that Published: 23 July 2021 P. nasalis may have established a naturalized population in the Narva Bay.