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Alburnus scoranza
Alburnus scoranza, the Skadar bleak, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the minnows, daces and related fishes. This species occurs only in the basins of Lake Skadar (Liqeni i Shkodrës) in Albania and Montenegro; and in Lake Ohrid in Albania and North Macedonia.
From the article Alburnus scoranza on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Alburnus scoranza is distinguished from related species around the Adriatic Sea in having the origin of the anal fin underneath or immediately to the rear of the base of last branched dorsal fin ray. The lateral line has between 47 and 53 scales along its length. The anal fin has 13 to 14+1⁄2 branched fin rays. The ventral keel is exposed for two thirds of the distance between the anus and the pelvic fins. There is no faint lateral stripe in living specimens. The Skadar bleak has a maximum total length of 17.9 cm (7.0 in).
Range & habitat
Alburnus scoranza is endemic to the Balkans where it is found in Lake Skadar in Albania and Montenegro and in Lake Ohrid in Albania and North Macedonia and the tributaries of these lakes, as far south as northern Greece.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
In human culture
Alburnus scoranza belongs to the genus Alburnus a name derived from the Latin for whitefish but it also refers to the bleak, a name which means pale in English, in reference to the pale non lustrous colour of A. alburnus. The specific name, scoranza, is the common name given to this species around Lake Skadar.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 93628.