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
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