Knipowitschia iljini Berg, 1931

Zarei, Fatah, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Abbasi, Keyvan, Kovačić, Marcelo, Schliewen, Ulrich K. & Stepien, Carol A., 2022, Gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) of the oldest and deepest Caspian Sea sub-basin: an evidence-based annotated checklist and a key for species identification, Zootaxa 5190 (2), pp. 151-193 : 172

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23. Knipowitschia iljini Berg, 1931 View in CoL ( Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18 ), Iljin’s Dwarf Goby

Knipowitschia iljini Berg, 1931: 1271 View in CoL , fig. 1–2, pl. I; type locality: Middle Caspian Sea; syntypes: ZIN 22052 (65), 24370 (16),?24424 (6+).

Etymology: Named for B. S. Iljin, Russian ichthyologist.

Distribution and habitat: The coastal waters of all three areas of the Caspian Sea ( Fig. 16C View FIGURE 16 ). Ragimov (1965) reported this species from between Kultuk and Astara region of Azerbaijan and generally in the Middle and South Caspian Sea; It was mapped around the coast of the entire Caspian Sea by Miller & Pinchuk (2004b). Listed by Abbasi (2017) in the coastal waters of Gilan Province in Iran. Benthic and also collected in the water column above the bottom. Shallower coastal areas (20–70 m), but also found farther offshore, from 40–500 m ( Miller & Pinchuk 2004b). Does not enter freshwaters ( Miller & Pinchuk 2004b).

Material examined: ZM-CBSU S104, 7, off Anzali , Gilan Province, Iran .

IUCN: DD ( Larson 2019a).

References

Abbasi, K. (2017) Fishes of Guilan. Iliya Culture Publication, Rasht, 208 pp. [in Persian]

Larson, H. (2019 a) Knipowitschia iljini. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2019, e. T 123435142 A 123494817. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / IUCN. UK. 2019 - 3. RLTS. T 123435142 A 123494817. en

Pinchuk, V. I. & Miller, P. J. (2004 b) Benthophiloides brauneri Beling & Iljin, 1927. In: Miller, P. J. (Ed.), The Freshwater Fishes of Europe Vol. 8 / II Gobiidae 2. AULA-Verlag GmbH, Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Wiebelsheim, pp. 153 - 159.

Ragimov, D. B. (1965) On the distribution of gobiids at the western coast of the central and southern Caspian. Doklady Akademii Nauk Azerbaijanskoy SSSR, 21, 47 - 50. [in Russian]