Knipowitschia
| Knipowitschia Temporal range:
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| Longtail dwarf goby (K. longecaudata), the type species of the genus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | 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)
The fossil species †Knipowitschia bulgarica Schwarzhans, Bradić & Bratishko, 2016 is known from fossil otoliths from the Middle Miocene of Bulgaria.[3]
References
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (14 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Knipowitschia". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Schwarzhans, Werner; Ahnelt, Harald; Carnevale, Giorgio; Japundžić, Sanja; Bradić, Katarina; Bratishko, Andriy (2017-03-01). "Otoliths in situ from Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) fishes of the Paratethys. Part III: tales from the cradle of the Ponto-Caspian gobies". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 136 (1): 45–92. doi:10.1007/s13358-016-0120-7. ISSN 1664-2384.