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Cyprinidae
sunbleak
Leucaspius delineatus
A subtle silver stripe crosses broad silver scales
- Temperate
- Lower river
- Upper river
- Transcontinental
- Europe
- Fusiform
- Small
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Europe
Fusiform
Smallsunbleak is known around Europe and Asia as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and the largest recorded length is 9 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Leucaspius
- Maximum length
- 9 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Europe and Asia: From Lower Rhine and northern Germany eastward to southern Baltic basin; Black Se basin south to Rioni drainage, northern and western Caspian basin (south to Kura drainage); Aegean Sea basin (from Maritsa to Nestos). Absent in Italy, Adriatic basin, Great Britain and Scandinavia (except southernmost Sweden). Widely introduced in France, upper Rhine drainage and locally in Great Britain and Swiitzerland.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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