Alburnoides bipunctatus
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Alburnoides bipunctatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
Genus: | Alburnoides |
Species: | A. bipunctatus |
Binomial name | |
Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch, 1782) | |
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Alburnoides bipunctatus, known vernacularly as the schneider, spirlin, bleak and others,[1] is a species of small (av. 9 cm length) freshwater fish in the Cyprinidae family.
It is found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. This fish inhabits rivers with very calm waters, and it eats dead insects and insect larvae, diatoms and crustaceans. It reproduces during April to June.
References
- ↑ "Alburnoides bipunctatus", eunis.eea.europa.eu (European Environment Agency), Vernacular names
Sources
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Alburnoides bipunctatus" in FishBase. September 2012 version.
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