The Lake Sidi Ali trout (''Salmo pallaryi'') is an extinct species of
salmonid fish that inhabited a
single lake in the
Atlas mountains of northern
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...
, at higher than 2000 metres elevation. It went
extinct in the 1930s, probably because of introduction of
common carp in the lake. Only two individuals remain in museum collections.
References
External links
*Bo Delling and Ignacio Doadrio (2005
Systematics of the trouts endemic to Moroccan lakes(abstract) Swedish Museum of Natural History website.
pallaryi
Freshwater fish of North Africa
Endemic fauna of Morocco
Fish described in 1924
Taxa named by Jacques Pellegrin
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Fish extinctions since 1500
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