''Biwia springeri'', the Korean dwarf gudgeon, is a species of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

in the genus ''

Biwia ''Biwia'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae Gobioninae is a monophyletic family of Eurasian cyprinoid fishes. This is a species rich clade which, as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae was divided into fi ...

'' found in North and South Korea. Named in honor of ichthyologist

Victor G. Springer Victor Gruschka Springer (June 2, 1928 – September 18, 2022) was an American biologist who was a Senior Scientist emeritus, Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. He was a specialist in the a ...

(b. 1928), U.S. National Museum, who collected the type specimen.

References

springeri Fish of Korea Taxa named by Petre Mihai Bănărescu Taxa named by Teodor T. Nalbant Fish described in 1973 {{Gobioninae-stub