''Zingel'' is a

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fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the family

Percidae The Percidae are a family of ray-finned fish, part of the order Perciformes, which are found in fresh and brackish waters of the Northern Hemisphere. The majority are Nearctic, but there are also Palearctic species. The family contains more than ...

. They are long and slender, reaching 12 to 48 cm in length. They are found in rivers and streams in Europe. They feed mainly on aquatic

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s such as

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s and

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e, and also eat small fish. While they were all classed as

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or vulnerable in the past, environmental improvements have allowed some to be reclassified to

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Species

The genus contains these species:Maitland, Peter S. and Keith Linsell (2006) ''Philip's Guide to Freshwater Fish of Britain and Europe'', Philip's, London. *''

Zingel asper ''Zingel asper'', also known as the Rhone streber, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Percidae that is at a high risk of becoming extinct due to habitat destruction and pollution. It is endemic to the rivers Durance and Beau ...

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...

) (Rhone streber) *''

Zingel balcanicus ''Zingel balcanicus'', the Vardar streber is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Percidae, the perches, ruffes, pikeperches and the darters. This species is endemic to the Vardar or Axios River in North Macedonia and its distr ...

'' ( S. L. Karaman, 1937) (Vardar streber) *'' Zingel streber'' (

Siebold Siebold or von Siebold is a German surname: * Carl Caspar von Siebold (1736–1807), surgeon * Regina von Siebold (1771–1849), obstetrician * Adam Elias von Siebold (1775–1828), medical doctor * Charlotte von Siebold (1788–1859), gynaecol ...

, 1863) (Danube streber) *''

Zingel zingel ''Zingel zingel'', the zingel, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Percidae. It is found in fast-flowing streams in southeastern Europe. It is the type species of the genus ''Zingel''. Description ''Zinger zingel'' has two s ...

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, 1766) (Zingel)

References

Luciopercinae Taxa named by Hippolyte Cloquet Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Percidae-stub