Alburnus arborella

Alburnus arborella is a species of ray-finned fish in the carp family Cyprinidae. It is a freshwater fish occurring in lakes and streams in Europe. It is distributed in Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland.

Alburnus arborella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Alburnus
Species:
A. arborella
Binomial name
Alburnus arborella
(Bonaparte, 1841)[2]
Synonyms
  • Aspius arborella Bonaparte, 1841 Small text
  • Cyprinus albor Scopoli, 1786
  • Cyprinus lanceolatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
  • Aspius alborella De Filippi, 1844
  • Alburnus alborella (De Filippi, 1844)

This species is up to 10 centimeters long. It eats plankton and invertebrates such as insects. It spawns in riffles and on lakeshores.[2]

This is an abundant fish and it is not considered to be a threatened species.[1]

References
  1. Freyhof, J. 2011. Alburnus arborella. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T135670A4175765. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135670A4175765.en. Downloaded on 06 October 2017.
  2. Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. Alburnus arborella. FishBase. 2015.
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