Alburnoides bipunctatus
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A. bipunctatus
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Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch, 1782)
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Alburnoides bipunctatus, known vernacularly as the schneider, spirlin, bleak, riffle minnow, and others,[1] is a species of small (9-cm average length) freshwater fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. This fish inhabits rivers with very calm waters, and it eats dead insects and insect larvae, diatoms, and crustaceans. It reproduces during April to June.[2]
This fish is not to be confused with Phenacobius catostomus, which is also known as a "riffle minnow".
References
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- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Alburnoides bipunctatus" in FishBase. September 2012 version.
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