Alburnus

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Alburnus
Alburnus alburnus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Alburnus
Rafinesque, 1820
Species

42, see text.

Alburnus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. They are known commonly as bleaks.[1] A group of species in the genus are known as shemayas.[2] The genus occurs in the western Palearctic ecozone, and the center of diversity is in Turkey.[3]

The genus Chalcalburnus is now part of Alburnus.[4]

There are about 42 species:[5]

Alburnus leobergi

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Buj, I., et al. (2010). Morphological comparison of bleaks (Alburnus, Cyprinidae) from the Adriatic Basin with the description of a new species. Folia Zool 59(2), 129-141.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Freyhof, J. and M. Kottelat. (2007). Alburnus vistonicus, a new species of shemaya from eastern Greece, with remarks on Chalcalburnus chalcoides macedonicus from Lake Volvi (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18(3), 205-12.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Özuluğ, M. and J. Freyhof. (2007). Alburnus demiri, a new species of bleak from Western Anatolia, Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18(4), 307.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Özuluğ, M. and J. Freyhof. (2007). Rediagnosis of four species of Alburnus from Turkey and description of two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18(3), 233-46.
  5. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.) Species list: Alburnus. FishBase. 2011.

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