Biology:Knipowitschia
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Knipowitschia | |
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| Longtail dwarf goby (K. longecaudata), the type species of the genus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Knipowitschia Iljin, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius longecaudatus Kessler, 1877
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Knipowitschia is a genus of marine, fresh and brackish water gobies native to Eurasia. The genus name almost certainly honours Nikolai Mikhailovich Knipovich (1862-1938), a biologist who led a number of expeditions to the Caspian Sea.[1]
Species
There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Knipowitschia byblisia Ahnelt, 2011 (Byblis goby)
- Knipowitschia cameliae Nalbant & Oţel, 1995 (Danube delta dwarf goby)
- Knipowitschia caucasica (L. S. Berg, 1916) (Caucasian dwarf goby)
- Knipowitschia caunosi Ahnelt, 2011 (Caunos goby)
- Knipowitschia croatica Mrakovčić, Kerovec, Mišetić & D. Schneider, 1996 (Neretva dwarf goby)
- Knipowitschia ephesi Ahnelt, 1995
- Knipowitschia goerneri Ahnelt, 1991 (Corfu dwarf goby)
- Knipowitschia iljini L. S. Berg, 1931
- Knipowitschia longecaudata (Kessler, 1877) (Longtail dwarf goby)
- Knipowitschia mermere Ahnelt, 1995
- Knipowitschia milleri (Ahnelt & Bianco, 1990) (Acheron spring goby)
- Knipowitschia montenegrina Kovačić & Šanda, 2007
- Knipowitschia mrakovcici P. J. Miller, 2009
- Knipowitschia panizzae (Verga, 1841) (Adriatic dwarf goby)
- Knipowitschia punctatissima (Canestrini, 1864) (Italian spring goby)
- Knipowitschia radovici Kovačić, 2005 (Norin goby)
- Knipowitschia thessala (Vinciguerra, 1921) (Thessaly goby)
References
- ↑ "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 14 July 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/gobiiformes6/. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Knipowitschia in FishBase. June 2013 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q559332 entry
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