Northern whitefin gudgeon
The northern whitefin gudgeon (Romanogobio belingi)[2] is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in the northern Black Sea basin (Dniester, Southern Bug, and Dnieper riverine systems), southern Baltic Sea basin (Oder, Vistula), southern North Sea basin (Elbe, Rhine). Also, reports from lakes Ilmen and Ladoga and its basins have been made, which are questionable. Their maximal length is 11.5 cm, with a maximal reported age of 5 years.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Romanogobio |
| Species: | R. belingi |
| Binomial name | |
| Romanogobio belingi (Slastenenko, 1934) | |
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References
- Freyhof, J. (2011). "Romanogobio belingi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2011: e.T135668A4175041. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135668A4175041.en.
- Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. 646 p.
Further reading
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Romanogobio belingi" in FishBase. November 2014 version.
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