Corfu dwarf goby

Short description: Species of fish

Corfu dwarf goby

Conservation status

Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Gobiiformes
Family:  | Gobiidae
Genus:  | Knipowitschia
Species:  |

K. goerneri

Binomial name
Knipowitschia goerneri

Ahnelt, 1991

the Corfu dwarf goby (Knipowitschia goerneri) is a species of freshwater goby endemic to the island of Corfu in western Greece. This species can reach a length of 2.2 centimetres (0.87 in) SL.[2] This species was only recorded from a single spring and was considered to have been last recorded in 1983 but surveys in the 1990s failed to find any, it was incorrectly thought that the spring which was the type locality had been affected by water abstraction which may have caused an increase in salinity, but the species had not been recorded at the affected spring.[1] In 2014, nine specimens of Corfu dwarf goby were collected from Korission Lagoon in southern Corfu.[3] The specific name honours Manfred Görner, who supported the author's ichthyological research.[4]

Lake Korission

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crivelli, A.J. (2006). "Knipowitschia goerneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T11028A3240024. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T11028A3240024.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11028/3240024. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Knipowitschia goerneri" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
3. ↑ Jasna Vukib; Marcelo Kovacib; Stamatis Zogaris; Radek Šanda (2016). "Rediscovery of Knipowitschia goerneri and its molecular relationships with other European northern Mediterranean Knipowitschia species (Teleostei: Gobiidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 26 (4): 363–372. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299853793. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
4. ↑ "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 14 July 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/gobiiformes6/. Retrieved 3 September 2018.

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