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Cyprinidae
Schneider
Alburnoides bipunctatus
A two spotted minnow across European rivers
Schneider is a freshwater fish found around Europe and Asia. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 18.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Alburnoides
- Maximum length
- 18.5 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Europe and Asia: Loire drainage in France eastward, in nearly all rivers draining to southern Baltic, North, Black and Azov Seas; Caspian basin, in upper Volga and from Kura drainage southward to Iranian tributaries of Caspian; widespread in Iran. In Mediterannean basin, only in Rhône and some small coastal drainages from Provence (France) eastward to Genova (Italy), Aoos (Greece, Albania) and western Greece as far south as Sperchios drainage. In Marmara basin, western Anatolia south to Great Menderes drainage and in upper Euphrate and Tigris drainages. Aral basin, upper Amu Darja and Karakumskij drainages (Tukmenistan, Afghanistan).

