Knipowitschia punctatissima
Taxonomy [top]
| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | ACTINOPTERYGII | PERCIFORMES | GOBIIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Knipowitschia punctatissima |
| Species Authority: | (Canestrini, 1864) |
Assessment Information [top]
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Near Threatened ver 3.1 | |||||||||
| Year Published: | 2006 | |||||||||
| Assessor/s: | Crivelli, A.J. | |||||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Bianco, G. & Freyhof, J. (Mediterranean Workshop, Dec. 2004) | |||||||||
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Justification: The population is thought to be decreasing but there is a lack of information to confirm or refute this suspicion. It has a relatively restricted range (estimated area of occupancy (AOO) <500 km²) but fails to qualify as threatened as it is found in just more than 10 locations, where locations are determined as interconnected networks of springs. |
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Geographic Range [top]
| Range Description: | It is restricted to north-eastern Italy. |
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Native:
Italy
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Population [top]
| Population: | It was previously believed to exist in only a few places but it has recently been found to be more widespread. |
| Population Trend: |
Unknown
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Habitat and Ecology [top]
| Habitat and Ecology: | Lives in springs and cold clean streams on the flat plains. |
| Systems: | Freshwater |
Threats [top]
| Major Threat(s): | Water extraction and pollution. |
Conservation Actions [top]
| Conservation Actions: | There is localised conservation as some springs are included within protected areas. However, protection is at the site level with no protection of the actual watershed. |
Bibliography [top]
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Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Bianco, P.G. 1995. Mediterranean endemic freshwater fishes of Italy. Biological Conservation 72: 159–170. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN. 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 04 May 2006. Mrakovcic, M., Kerovec, M., Misetic, S. and Schneider, D. 1996. Description of Knipowitschia punctatissima croatica (Pisces, Gobiidae), a new freshwater goby from Dalmatia, Croatia. In: A. Kirchhofer & D. Hefti (eds) Conservation of Endangered Freshwater Fish in Europe. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland. |
| Citation: | Crivelli, A.J. 2006. Knipowitschia punctatissima. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 16 May 2012. |
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