The common nase is a European potamodromous cyprinid fish. It is often simply called the nase, but that can refer to any species of its genus Chondrostoma. Another name is sneep.
Chondrostoma is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. They are commonly known as nases, although this term is also used locally to denote particular species, most frequently the common nase . The common name refers to the protruding upper jaw of these fishes; it is derived from the German term Nase 'nose'.
The Beysehir nase is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found only in Turkey and it is restricted to three streams flowing into Lake Beysehir, where it also occurs, in central Anatolia.
The South European nase is a species of cyprinid fish.
Chondrostoma kinzelbachi, sometimes known as the Orontes nase or Levantine nase, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Syria and Turkey. Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The Neretvan nase or Dalmatian nase, Serbo-Croatian: podustva, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
Chondrostoma meandrense, sometimes called the Menderes nase or Işıklı nase, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found only in Turkey. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The minnow-nase, Serbo-Croatian: podbila, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, and inland karsts. It is threatened by habitat loss and considered Endangered (EN).
Chondrostoma soetta, or the Italian nase, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland. Its natural habitats are rivers and freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss and predation and competition from introduced species such as roach, wels catfish and the common nase. It has been extirpated from Slovenia and numbers are declining in the Italian and Swiss lakes of Lake Como, Lake Lugano, Lake Maggiore, Lake Iseo and Lake Garda. Some population which are descended from fish introduced to other lakes in Italy appear to be thriving.
Chondrostoma vardarense is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, and Turkey. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The Tefenni nase or Tefenni minnow is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found only in Turkey where it has a distribution limited to the Kirkpinar spring in Karamusa village near Tefenni, Karatash Lake and Değirmendere stream flowing into Karamanlı Reservoir in wider Lake Burdur basin in Central Anatolia. Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss and was extirpated from the Kirkinpar spring, its type locality, and had to be reintroduced there with unknown success, the population in Değirmendere was discovered in the 21st Century and its size is unknown.
Chondrostoma angorense, sometimes called the Ankara nase or Black Sea nase, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Chondrostoma which is endemic to northern Anatolia, Turkey.
The Colchic nase or Transcaucasian nase is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. Its distribution is south of the Caucasus, and it is reported from Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
The Kura nase or southern Caspian nase is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Chondrostoma.
Kuban's nase or Kuban nase is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.
Iberochondrostoma olisiponensis, the Lisbon arched-mouth nase, is a freshwater fish discovered in 2007 in the lower Rio Tejo basin, Portugal.
The Terek nase is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in rivers of the western Caspian Sea basin, in Azerbaijan and Russia. It prefers fast-flowing waters in the foothill and mountain ranges, with rocky or gravel bottoms.
Chondrostoma regium, sometimes known as the brond-snout or Mesopotamian nase is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Chondrostoma from Mesopotamia.
The Volga undermouth or Volga nase is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish. This one lives in the Emba, Ural, and Volga drainages of the Caspian Sea basin and the Don River drainage of the Black Sea basin.
The fish fauna of the Neretva river basin in the western Balkans is representative of the Dinaric karst region and characterized by several endemic and endangered species.
