Corfu dwarf goby

Knipowitschia goerneri, the Corfu dwarf goby, 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

Corfu dwarf goby
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Knipowitschia
Species:
K. goerneri
Binomial name
Knipowitschia goerneri
Ahnelt, 1991

References
  1. Crivelli, A.J. (2006). "Knipowitschia goerneri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T11028A3240024. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T11028A3240024.en.
  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. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  4. 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.


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