Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg, 1916)

Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), Zootaxa 5402 (1), pp. 1-99 : 79

253. Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg, 1916)

Common name. Caucasian dwarf goby

Taxonomy. Original description: Pomatoschistus caucasicus Berg, 1916: 409 [Swamp near Batum and Inkit Lake near Pitzunda, Lake Temirgorje, Georgia, Eurasia; syntypes: BMNH 1896.3.28.26-28 (ex Tiflis Mus.) (3)] .

Revisions. Zarei et al. (2021a).

Illustrations. Zarei et al. (2022a: 172, fig. 17).

Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.―Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 452-Caspian Marine.

Status in Iran. [Native].—Gavmahi-e qafqazi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.

Conservation. —IUCN: LC.