Natural History Museum Rijeka; Lorenzov prolaz 1; HR-51000 Rijeka; Croatia.
Izmir Katip Celebi University; Faculty of Fisheries; zmir; Trkiye.
Zootaxa. 2023 Oct 26;5360(2):219-238. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.2.3.
Knipowitschia is a sand-goby genus historically comprising 17 species. The congeneric Knipowitschia species show discordance between morphology and genetics in two ways: the morphologically similar species that are clearly distinct by genetics and the morphologically and ecologically distinct populations that are similar by genetics. A sample of Knipowitschia individuals has been collected from Karpuzay Creek on the Levantine Sea coast. It is the easternmost Mediterranean record of any Knipowitschia, and a number of arguments suggest it is native. Among the presently valid Knipowitschia species, the population was identified by both genetics and morphology as K. caucasica. The detailed morphological description and genetics are provided for this population. The morphology of the present sample fits within the highly variable morphology of east Aegean populations presently recognized as K. caucasica, although with the extreme values of the already known morphological and coloration variability.
棘头鱼科是沙鰕虎鱼属，历史上包含 17 个物种。该同属物种在形态和遗传上存在两种不匹配的情况：形态相似但遗传上明显不同的物种，以及形态和生态上不同但遗传上相似的种群。从地中海Levantine 海岸的卡普扎伊湾采集到棘头鱼科个体样本。这是地中海东部任何棘头鱼科物种的最东记录，有几个论点表明它是本地物种。在目前有效的棘头鱼科物种中，该种群通过遗传和形态学被鉴定为 K. caucasica。为该种群提供了详细的形态描述和遗传学信息。目前样本的形态与被认为是 K. caucasica 的东安纳托利亚种群的高度可变形态相吻合，尽管具有已经已知的形态和颜色变异性的极值。
