Pontian shemaya

Pontian shemaya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Alburnus
Species: A. sarmaticus
Binomial name
Alburnus sarmaticus
Freyhof & Kottelat, 2007[2]

Pontian shemaya (Alburnus sarmaticus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alburnus. Widespread in European rivers: Southern Bug, Dnieper, Danube (in Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria); River Kolpa, an upper tributary to the River Sava in Croatia and Slovenia.[3] Almost extirpated in Danube, to be probably survived only in River Kolpa.[1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Freyhof, J. (2008). "Alburnus sarmaticus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 3.1 (3.1). International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Alburnus sarmaticus" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
  3. ↑ Freyhof, J. and M. Kottelat, 2007. Review of the Alburnus mento species group with description of two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 18(3):213-225.
  4. ↑ Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. 646 pp.


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