| Telestes muticellus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Telestes |
| Species: | T. muticellus |
| Binomial name | |
| Telestes muticellus (Bonaparte, 1837) | |
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| Synonyms [2] | |
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Telestes muticellus, the Italian riffle dace, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. [2] This species and the Western riffle dace or souffia ( T. souffia ) are both sometimes called vairone[ citation needed ] and were previously considered conspecific. [2] This fish is found in northern Italy and Slovenia. [1]
Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent rivers. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN. [1]