Alburnoides ohridanus

The Ohrid spirlin (Alburnoides ohridanus) is a fish species of family Cyprinidae. This species is endemic to Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia and Albania in the Balkans. It is a benthopelagic temperate freshwater fish, up to 9 cm in length. It was originally named as a subspecies of Alburnoides bipunctatus.[2] It is threatened by non-indigenous species of fish, many of which have been introduced into Lake Ohrid.[1]

Alburnoides ohridanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Alburnoides
Species:
A. ohridanus
Binomial name
Alburnoides ohridanus
(Karaman, 1928)
Synonyms
  • Alburnoides bipunctatus ohridanus Karaman, 1928

It grows to 9 cm in standard length and can be distinguished from other Balkan species of Alburnoides by having a distinctly upturned mouth, the eye diameter being equal to the length of the snout, a distinct indentation on the nape, a long caudal peduncle which is just under twice as long as it is deep, 42-44 scales on the lateral line and in having 111/2 branched rays in its anal fin. It occurs in the surf zone along the lake shore.[3] It spawns in late spring, in May and June.[1]

References
  1. Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Alburnoides ohridanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T135617A4163099. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135617A4163099.en. Downloaded on 10 October 2017.
  2. N.G. Bogutskaya; P. Zupančič; 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.
  3. Rainer Froese; Daniel pauly, eds. (2017). "Alburnoides ohridanus (Karaman, 1928)". Fishbase. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
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