Zingel balcanicus

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA ACTINOPTERYGII PERCIFORMES PERCIDAE

Scientific Name: Zingel balcanicus
Species Authority: (Karaman, 1936)

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Data Deficient     ver 3.1
Year Assessed: 2006
Assessor/s Crivelli, A.J.
Evaluator/s: Kottleat, M. & Barbieri, R. (Mediterranean Workshop, Dec. 2004)
Justification:
There are no data on the abundance, population trends or threats to this species.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description: Restricted to the Vardar (Axios) River in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Potentially it may also be present in the lower reaches of the river in Greece.
Countries:
Native:
Greece; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of

Population [top]

Population: No data. It is only known from a few museum specimens. The last specimen was collected in 1986 but no real efforts have been made to collect it since then.
Population Trend: Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology: It lives in rivers. Nothing else known, but based on the habits of other species in the genus, it requires turbulent water.
Systems: Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s): Any modification to river morphology may have a potential negative impact.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions: None.
Citation: Crivelli, A.J. 2006. Zingel balcanicus. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2010.
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