Knipowitschia

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Knipowitschia
Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present
Longtail dwarf goby (K. longecaudata), the type species of the genus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Knipowitschia
Iljin, 1927
Type species
Gobius longecaudatus
Kessler, 1877
Synonyms
  • Bubyr Iljin, 1930

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

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There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:[2]

The fossil species Knipowitschia bulgarica Schwarzhans, Bradić & Bratishko, 2016 is known from fossil otoliths from the Middle Miocene of Bulgaria.[3]

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References

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