Knipowitschia byblisia

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Knipowitschia byblisia

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Knipowitschia
Species:
K. byblisia
Binomial name
Knipowitschia byblisia
, 2011

Knipowitschia byblisia, the Byblis goby, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Gobiidae which is endemic to a single lake in western Anatolia.[2] This species is endemic to Lake Köycegiz, a brackish lake in eastern Anatolia near the Aegean Sea.[3] The lake is a protected and the species is abundant within the lake so the IUCN have classified K. byblis as Least Concern.[1] The specific name references the mythological figure Byblis, who was the twin sister of Caunos, the legendary founder of the ancient city Kaunos, the ruins of which are situated on the southwest Anatolian coast; near to Lake Köycegiz.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Freyhof, J. (2014). "Knipowitschia byblisia". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19513691A19849599. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19513691A19849599.en.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Knipowitschia byblisia" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. ^ Harald Anhelt (2011). "Two new sympatric Knipowitschia species (Telesotei: Gobiidae) from an eastern Mediterranean coastal lake - examples of different dispersal patterns?". Zootaxa. 3114: 22–30.
  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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