Dnieper chub

Dnieper chub
	P. borysthenicus in Neo Sidirochori, Greece
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Petroleuciscus
Species:	P. borysthenicus
Binomial name
	Petroleuciscus borysthenicus; (Kessler, 1859)
Synonyms
	Squalius borysthenicus Kessler, 1859; Leuciscus borysthenicus (Kessler, 1859); Telestes leucoides De Filippi, 1863; Leuciscus heterandrius Battalgil, 1940;

The Dnieper chub or the Black Sea chub (Petroleuciscus borysthenicus) is a species of cyprinid fish from Eastern Europe. It is found in Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. It lives up to eight years.

Sources

World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Petroleuciscus borysthenicus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Petroleuciscus borysthenicus" in FishBase. April 2012 version.

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