Abrau sprat
| Abrau sprat | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Clupeidae |
| Subfamily: | Clupeinae |
| Genus: | Clupeonella |
| Species: | C. abrau |
| Binomial name | |
| Clupeonella abrau (Maliatsky, 1930) | |
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Abrau sprat, Clupeonella abrau, is a species of freshwater fish in the Clupeidae family. It is found landlocked in Russia in a single locality, Lake Abrau, located at 70 m above sea level near the Black Sea coast close to Novorossiysk.[1] The lake is small and has been stocked by several alien species, whence the Abrau sprat is considered critically endangered.[2]
A sprat of the Lake Apolyont in Turkey, linked to the Sea of Marmara, was earlier treated as a subspecies of the Abrau sprat, Clupeonella abrau muhilisi, but has more recently been considered an independent species Clupeonella muhlisi.[3][2]
Sources
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Clupeonella abrau" in FishBase. April 2015 version.
- 1 2 Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. (2008). "Clupeonella abrau". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Clupeonella muhlisi" in FishBase. April 2015 version.
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