Knipowitschia
| Knipowitschia Temporal range:
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| Longtail dwarf goby (K. longecaudata), the type species of the genus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobionellinae |
| Genus: | Knipowitschia Iljin, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius longecaudatus Kessler, 1877
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Knipowitschia is a genus of marine, fresh and brackish water gobies native to Eurasia. The genus name almost certainly honours Nikolai Mikhailovich Knipovich (1862-1938), a biologist who led a number of expeditions to the Caspian Sea.