longecaudatus, Gobius Kessler [K. F.] 1877:35, Pl. 3 (fig. 8) [The Aralo-Caspian Expedition; ref. 2597] Southern and middle Caspian Sea. Syntypes: BMNH 1897.7.5.10 [ex ZIN, var. C] (1), ZIN (lost). Kessler treats 3 unnamed varieties, "a" from 336 ft. [48 Russian fms.], "b" from 308 and 245 ft. [44 and 35 Russian fms.], and "c" from 1750 ft. [250 Russian fms.]. Spelled longicaudatus in literature. Neotype designated by Pinchuk 1978:797 as ZISP 3876, but apparently the BMNH syntype is available. •Valid as Knipowitschia longecaudata (Kessler 1877) -- (Berg 1949:1066 [ref. 20662], Miller 1973:497 [ref. 6888], Miller in Whitehead et al. 1986:1048 [ref. 13677], Mitrofanov & Dukravec 1989:275 [ref. 37748] as longicaudata, Coad 1995:30 [ref. 23608], Kottelat 1997:177 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:754 [ref. 24702], Vasil'eva 1998:135 [ref. 23591], McKay & Miller 1997:1464 [ref. 24951] as valid species and subspecies, Bogutskaya et al. 2001:47 [ref. 26178], Kovačić & Pallaoro 2003:132 [ref. 27236], Vasil'eva 2003:S47 [ref. 28444], Miller in Miller 2004:383 [ref. 27853], Miller & Pinchuk in Miller 2004:432 [var. "c"] [ref. 27853], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:225 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:182 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:104 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:569 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:159 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:172 [ref. 31251], Esmaeili et al. 2010:377 [ref. 33391], Kovačić & Patzner 2011:186 [ref. 31737], Parin et al. 2014:490 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:898 [ref. 34062], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Esmaeili et al. 2017:83 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:64 [ref. 36089], Artüz & Fricke 2019:559 [ref. 36612], Çiçek et al. 2020:256 [ref. 37644], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2020:235 [ref. 37983], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[6] [ref. 37535], Manilo 2020:75 [ref. 37795], Kodukhova & Karabanov 2021:539 [621] [ref. 38655], Zarei et al. 2022:172 [ref. 39576], Çiçek et al. 2023:430 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2024:319 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Knipowitschia longecaudata (Kessler 1877). Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Eurasia: Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Caspian Sea basins. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.
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