''Leucos basak'', the Albanian roach, Dalmatian roach or Croatian roach, is a species of
freshwater fish in the family
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...
. It is found in
Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, and
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
.
[Bianco, P.G. & Ketmaier, V. (2014): A revision of the Rutilus complex from Mediterranean Europe with description of a new genus, Sarmarutilus, and a new species, Rutilus stoumboudae (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). ''Zootaxa, 3841 (3): 379–402''.]
Its natural
habitats are intermittent rivers and freshwater lakes.
References
Freshwater fish of Europe
Leucos
Fish described in 1843
Endemic fish of the Neretva basin
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