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Cyprinidae
knife
Pelecus cultratus
Eggs drift and hatch in rivers
- Temperate
- Regional distribution
- Europe
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Largeknife is a freshwater fish of Eurasia. The species occupies estuaries and brackish water. Records give a maximum length of 60 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Pelecus
- Maximum length
- 60 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eurasia: Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Aral Sea basins; Baltic basin from Vistula to Neva drainages, southern Sweden and Finland, Lakes Ladoga and Onega. Occasionally on Baltic coast west of Vistula and on Finnish coast north of 61°N (Ref. 59043 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
