Classification / Names
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Teleostei (teleosts) >
Cypriniformes (Carps) >
Leuciscidae (Minnows) > Leuciscinae
Etymology: Alburnoides: From the city of Al Bura, where the fish was known + particle Greek, oides = similar (Ref. 45335); fangfangae: Named for Fang Fang Kullander of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Eponymy: Dr Fang Kullander née Fang (1962–2010) was a Chinese ichthyologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Temperate
Europe: Osum [Osumi] River in the upper Seman River drainage, Albania.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?, range 6 - ? cm
Max length : 7.3 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 85842)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal soft rays (total): 12; Anal soft rays: 15 - 18; Vertebrae: 40 - 42. Distinguished from all its congeners by the combination of the following characters: anal fin with 11½-13½ branched rays; 46-53 small scales on the total pored lateral line; total vertebrae usually 40 (20+20 and 21+19) or 41 (21+20 and 20+21); deep caudal peduncle (depth 43-48% body depth at dorsal fin origin); usually a mostly or completely scaleless ventral keel; mouth with a curved and only slightly slanted cleft and a produced fleshy snout; interorbital width 1.3-1.5 times the eye diameter; weakly ossified preethmoid; depressed and considerably expanded anterior tip of the basihyal, a unique feature among species of Alburnoides from western Europe (Ref. 85842).
Found in a shallow river section 2 m wide with a stony bottom at an elevation of about 825 m (Ref. 85842).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Bogutskaya, N.G., P. Zupančič and A.M. Naseka, 2010. Two new species of freshwater fishes of the genus Alburnoides, A. fangfangae and A. devolli (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae), from the Adriatic Sea basin in Albania. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 314 (4):448-468. (Ref. 85842)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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