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Cyprinidae
nase
Chondrostoma nasus
Adults form dense winter swarms
- Temperate
- Transcontinental
- Freshwater fish
- Europe
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Freshwater fish
Europe
Fusiform
Mediumnase is known around Europe as a migratory fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and records give a maximum length of 50 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Chondrostoma
- Maximum length
- 50 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Europe: Basins of Black (Danube, Dniestr, South Bug and Dniepr drainages), southern Baltic (Nieman, Odra, Vistula) and southern North Seas (westward to Meuse). Invasive or introduced in Rhône, Loire, Hérault, Seine (France) and Soca (Italy, Slovenia) drainages. Reports from the Drin drainage including Lakes Ohrid and Skadar represent a distinct species. Asia: Turkey.
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
Class
Family
Conservation status
