Abrau sprat

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Abrau sprat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Ehiravidae
Genus: Clupeonella
Species:
C. abrau
Binomial name
Clupeonella abrau
(Maliatsky, 1930)
Synonyms
  • Clupeonella abrau abrau (Maliatsky, 1930)
  • Clupeonella muhlisi (non Neu, 1934)
  • Harengula abrau Maliatsky, 1930

The Abrau sprat (Clupeonella abrau) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Clupeidae. [2] It is found landlocked in Russia in a single locality, Lake Abrau, located at 70 m above sea level near the Black Sea coast close to Novorossiysk. [3] The lake is small and has been stocked by several alien species, whence the Abrau sprat is considered critically endangered. [4] As a result of the 2019 expedition, several individuals of the Abrau sprat were caught and their mitocondrial genome were sequenced, which showed their identity with the museum specimens. [5] This confirmed that the C. abrau is present in the fish community and is capable of reproducing in the Lake Abrau. [5]

A sprat of the Lake Apolyont in Turkey, linked to the Sea of Marmara, was earlier treated as a subspecies of the Abrau sprat, Clupeonella abrau muhilisi, but has more recently been considered an independent species Clupeonella muhlisi . [1] [6]

Sources

  1. 1 2 Freyhof, J.; Kottelat, M. (2008). "Clupeonella abrau". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2008 e.T4985A11106744. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T4985A11106744.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Species Clupeonella abrau Maliatsky 1930". FishWisePro. 1930. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Clupeonella abrau". FishBase .
  4. ↑ Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. (2008). "Clupeonella abrau". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2008. IUCN: e.T4985A11106744. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T4985A11106744.en . Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  5. 1 2 Karabanov, D.P.; Pereboev, D.D.; Efeykin, B.D.; Kodukhova, Yu.V.; Kotov, A.A. (2024). "Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Clupeonella abrau (Maliatsky, 1930) (Clupeiformes), an Endemic Freshwater Fish from the Lake Abrau (Russia)" . Doklady Biological Sciences . 517 (1): 63–68. doi:10.1134/S0012496624700996. ISSN   0012-4966. PMID   38955884.
  6. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Clupeonella muhlisi". FishBase .


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