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. 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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