Knipowitschia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Gobiaria
Ordo: Gobiiformes
Subordo: Gobioidei

Familia: Oxudercidae
Subfamilia: Gobionellinae
Genus: Knipowitschia
Species (17): K. byblisia – K. cameliae – K. caucasica – K. caunosi – K. croatica – K. ephesi – K. goerneri – K. iljini – K. longecaudata – K. mermere – K. milleri – K. montenegrina – K. mrakovcici – K. panizzae – K. punctatissima – K. radovici – †K. suavis – K. thessala
Name

Knipowitschia Iljin, 1927
Type species: Gobius longecaudatus Kessler, 1877
Fixation: monotypy

Synonyms

Bubyr Iljin, 1930: 53
Orsinigobius Gandolfi, Marconato & Torricelli, 1986: 376

References

Iljin, B.S. 1927: Keys to the gobies (Fam. Gobiidae) of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Chozjajstva i Okeanografii Moskva. 2: 128–143, Pls. 1-2. [In Russian.]
Miller, P.J. 2009: A west Balkanian freshwater gobiid fish, Knipowitschia mrakovcici sp. nov. (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Journal of Fish Biology, 74: 1499–1507.
Thacker, C.E. 2013: Phylogenetic placement of the European sand gobies in Gobionellidae and characterization of gobionellid lineages (Gobiiformes: Gobioidei). Zootaxa 3619(3): 369–382. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.3.6 Reference page.

Links

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Vernacular names
English: Dwarf gobies
українська: Кніповічія

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

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 and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Knipowitschia in FishBase. June 2013 version.