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Epirus minnow
Pelasgus epiroticus (Steindachner, 1895)
Also calledioanninanmutu (fin) · slunka albánská (ces) · Ηπειρώτικη τσίμα (ell) · Τσίμα (ell) · Эпирский гольян (rus)
Pelasgus epiroticus, the Epirote minnow or tsima, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. It is endemic to Lake Pamvotis in Greece. Due to the restricted range of the species as well as the significant loss its population has suffered since the early 1990s, it has been assessed as critically endangered, possibly extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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Range & habitat
Pelasgus epiroticus is known only from Lake Pamvotis in Epirus, northwestern Greece, where it was found in stagnant or slow moving water with abundant aquatic vegetation.
In human culture
Pelasgus epiroticus belongs to the genus Pelasgus. This name is derived from the Pelasgians, the ancient people who lived around the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Indo-European speaking ancestors of the Greeks in the second millennium B.C.E., and alludes to the fishes in this genus all being found in the Balkans. The specific name, epiroticus, means "belonging to Epirus", the historical region of northwestern Greece and southern Albania. This fish was described from Albania, but it is now known only from Lake Pamvotis in Greek Epirus.
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