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A new subspecies, Knipowitschia punctatissima croatica, is described on the basis of material from Dalmatia, Croatia. It shares several characters with K. p. punctatissima: the males have several vertical bars, there are no sensory canals on the head, the suborbital pore series a is present and the scales are almost completely lacking, being restricted to a pectoral axillary patch. K. p. croatica differs in some meristic characters: 15 – 18 vertical dark bars on the sides of the male, 32–33 vertebrae, D1 VI, D2 8–9 and 15 caudal rays. It was caught in Polje Jezero, at 26 m altitude, in the vicinity of the town of Vrgorac, about 10 km from the sea.
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Mrakovcic, M., Kerovec, M., Misetic, S., Schneider, D. (1996). Description of Knipowitschia punctatissima croatica, (Pisces: Gobiidae), a new freshwater goby from Dalmatia, Croatia. In: Kirchhofer, A., Hefti, D. (eds) Conservation of Endangered Freshwater Fish in Europe. ALS Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9014-4_31
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