Is Knipowitschia caucasica-like form from the Adriatic Sea a new goby species? Evidence from a morphological approach in the eastern Adriatic Sea

Kovačić M., Pallaoro A.

Published date: April 2003
Volume: 27
Number: 2
Pagination: 131-136
Publisher: Société Française d'Ichtyologie
doi: https://doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2004-272-006
Abstract

Specimens of the gobiid Knipowitschia caucasica (Kawrajski in Berg, 1916) were collected since 1999 along the eastern Adriatic coast. Specimens were found in waters of different salinity, from fresh to almost sea water conditions, in springs near the sea, in small lagoons at river mouths, and in the sea-influenced parts of rivers. Standard lengths of the 87 examined specimens varied from 18.5 - 35.7 mm. The present findings confirmed previously questioned presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea and provides data on morphology and ecology of the Adriatic specimens.

Keywords: adriatic Sea - Ecology - Gobiidae - Knipowitschia caucasica - MED - Morphology
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