Round goby includes mollusks, crustaceans, worms, fish eggs, zebra mussels, small fish, and insect larvae. Adult round gobies feed mainly on mollusks and other small invertebrates (insects and amphipods) living on the bottom of lakes and streams. At spring, the main items in its diet in the Sasyk Lagoon are "Hydrobia", "Cerastoderma", "Abra". In the same season near the Romanian coasts of the Black Sea the round goby feeds on polychaetes, crustaceans ("Idotea balthica", "Pachygrapsus marmoratus", "Xantho poressa", etc.) and juvenile gobies. Near Sevastopol the round goby feeds on molluscs ("Mytilaster lineatus", "Abra" spp.), but near Karadag except molluscs ("Cerastoderma", "Brachiodontes") were
Pinchuk's goby Pinchuk's goby Pinchuk's goby ("Ponticola cephalargoides") is a species of goby native to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The body of adults is prolonged, not very high. Only juveniles have high and short body. Сaudal peduncle is very high (highest between al representatives of genus "Ponticola"), short and flattened from sides (its high is equal its length). The scales on the caudal peduncle are not very big. Head is flattened from sides, snout profile is round, cheeks are round. Superior lip is broad, relatively short. Premaxilla short (especially in juveniles), with sparse strong lips. First dorsal fin