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Cyprinidae
Naked minnow
Phoxinellus alepidotus
Winter drought sends it into underground karst water
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Europe
- Elongated
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Elongated
SmallNaked minnow is a freshwater fish that inhabits caves or underground water. Records describe one especially distinctive detail: Winter drought sends it into underground karst water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Phoxinellus
- Maximum length
- 14.5 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Europe: streams in Glamočko, Livanjsko poljes; Duvanjsko ploje, Lakes Busko and Blidinje and intermittent streams Korana and Struga near Bosansko Grahovo (Bosnia Herzegovina).
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