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Tropidophoxinellus hellenicus
Tropidophoxinellus hellenicus, the Hellenic roachminnow, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. This fish is endemic to southern Greece.
From the article Tropidophoxinellus hellenicus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Tropidophoxinellus hellenicus can be told apart from T. spartiaticus by its mouth opening upwards, the lower jaw projects beyond the upper jaw and by having between 37 and 40 scales along the lateral line. This species has a maximum standard length of 9.3 cm (3.7 in).
Range & habitat
Tropidophoxinellus hellenicus is endemic to the southwestern Greece. Here it occurs from the lower Achelous, including lakes Trichonida, Lysimachia and Amvrakia, south to the Pineios River in the northwestern Peloponnese. This is s schooling species of lowland rivers, lakes and spring-fed streams where there is slow-moving or still water with aquatic vegetation.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
In human culture
Tropidophoxinellus hellenicus is classified in the genus Tropidophoxinellus, a name which prefixes the minnow genus name Phoxinus with trophidos, the genitive of tropis, which means "keel" and is an allusion to the scaleless keel which runs from the pelvic fins to the anus. The specific name, hellenicus, means "of Greece", where this species is endemic.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 114587.