Alburnoides bipunctatus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	CYPRINIFORMES	CYPRINIDAE

Scientific Name:

Alburnoides bipunctatus

Species Authority:

(Bloch, 1782)

Common Name/s:

English

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Spirlin

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M.

Evaluator/s:

Bogutskaya, N., & Smith, K. (IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit)

Justification:
Widespread and regionally abundant. Locally threatened due to stream regulation, stocking of trout and pollution.

History:

1996

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Lower Risk/least concern

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	From Loire drainage (France) eastward, in nearly all rivers draining to North, Black and Azov Seas; Caspian basin, in upper Volga and from Kura drainage southward to Iranian tributaries of Caspian. In Mediterranean basin, only in Rhône and some small coastal drainages from Provence (France) eastward to Genova (Italy), Aoos (Greece, Albania) and western Greece as far south as Sperchios drainage. In Marmara basin, western Anatolia south to Gediz drainage (Izmir) and in upper Euphrat and Tigris drainages. Aral basin, upper Amu Darja and Karakumskij drainages (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan).
Countries:	Native: Afghanistan; Albania; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Italy; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Moldova; Montenegro; Netherlands; Pakistan; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan
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Population [top]

Population:	Abundant.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Habitat: Streams and rivers in foothills, with well oxygenated, fast-flowing water. Spawns on gravel in swift current. Biology: Spawns for the first time at two years and usually only one or two seasons. Spawns in May-July, when temperature rises above 12°C. Single females spawn more than once during a season. Spawns in small groups, depositing eggs deep into gravel. Juveniles in a wide variety of shoreline habitats. All age classes inhabit open water of streams and small rivers. Feeds on terrestrial and drifting invertebrates.
Systems:	Freshwater

Habitat and Ecology:

Habitat:
Streams and rivers in foothills, with well oxygenated, fast-flowing water. Spawns on gravel in swift current.

Biology:
Spawns for the first time at two years and usually only one or two seasons. Spawns in May-July, when temperature rises above 12°C. Single females spawn more than once during a season. Spawns in small groups, depositing eggs deep into gravel. Juveniles in a wide variety of shoreline habitats. All age classes inhabit open water of streams and small rivers. Feeds on terrestrial and drifting invertebrates.

Systems:

Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Stream regulation, stocking of trout and pollution.

Major Threat(s):

Stream regulation, stocking of trout and pollution.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	No information.

Conservation Actions:

No information.

Citation:	Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Alburnoides bipunctatus. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2010.
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