Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg, 1916)

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Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg, 1916) – Native ( Fig. 431 )

Pomatoschistus caucasicus Berg [L. S.] (ex Kavraisky) 1916: 409; Type locality: Swamp near Batum and Inkit Lake near Pitzunda, Georgia (Eurasia). Syntypes: BMNH 1896.3.28.26–28 [ex Tiflis Mus.] (3) Lake Temirgorje, Georgia, Eurasia.

Bubyr caucasicus kosswigii Sözer [F.] 1941: 159; Type locality: Lake Manyas, Anatolia, Turkey. Syntypes: (7) whereabouts unknown.

Common name: Pr: Gavmahi-ye qafqazi, En: Caucasian dwarf goby.

Diagnosis: Distinguished by with 4–8 dark bars on body of breeding males, back scaleless in front of origin of D 2, anterior extremity or anterior oculoscapular canal in front of middle or eye (pore λ), posterior oculoscapular canal present, belly in females yellowish, 31–34 scales in midlateral series.

Meristic characters: D 1: V–VIII (VI), D 2: I 6–10 (7–8), A: I 5–10 (7–8), P: 13–18, LS: 29–38, TV: 30–33.

Distribution: Caspian basin ( Fig. 432). Found in the lower Sefidrud River, Anzali Wetland, Gorgan Bay, Aras Dam as well as southeast Caspian Sea, southwest Caspian Sea and south-central Caspian Sea.

Taxonomy: Miller in Hureau and Monod (1973) placed in Knipowitschia .

Conservation: IUCN: Least Concern ( Freyhof and Kottelat 2008q).

Figures

Fig. 431. Knipowitschia caucasica. Photograph from Gorgan bay, Caspian Sea basin (Photographed by A. Bahalke).