| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | ACTINOPTERYGII | CYPRINIFORMES | CYPRINIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Pachychilon pictum | |||
| Species Authority: | (Heckel & Kner, 1858) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | ||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2011 | ||||||
| Assessor/s: | Freyhof, J. | ||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Kottelat, M. & Smith, K. | ||||||
| Contributor/s: | Crivelli, A.J. | ||||||
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Justification: The species is known from Drin river basin including Lake Skadar basin (Serbia and Montenegro) and Lake Ohrid (Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)) and all Albanian rivers draining to the Adriatic south to Aoos river basin in western Greece. Even though the habitats are impacted by pollution and dams, the species is quite abundant and obviously capable to survive in reservoirs and polluted habitats. It isn't expected to have undergone a population decline of more than 30% in the past 10 years. It is therefore assessed as Least Concern. European Union 27 = LC. Within the European Union the species is only recorded in the Aoos river basin in western Greece, flowing into Albania where it is called the River Vijose. Here the species is abundant. It is therefore assessed as LC for the EU 27 also as only the drying up of the river due to water abstraction and climate change seems to be a realistic threat and this is not expected to happen in the near future. |
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| Range Description: | It is restricted to the Lake Skadar basin (Serbia-Montenegro) and to the Drin river basin including Lake Ohrid (Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)). It is also recorded in the Aoos river basin in western Greece. In Italy was introduced in Serchio River and was found also in Lake Massaciuccoli were it is quite common, but still reported in this lake as Rutilus rubilio (P.G. Bianco pers. obs.). The species has commercial value in Lake Skadar, and is very frequent in the basin of Moraca River and in River Vijose in Albana, which originate in Greece as River Aoos. It has also been introduced into France. |
| Countries: |
Native:
Albania; Greece; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Serbia
Introduced:
France; Italy
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| Population: | Quite abundant. |
| Population Trend: |
Unknown
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| Habitat and Ecology: | It is a small cyprinid living in rivers as well as in lakes. |
| Systems: | Freshwater |
| Major Threat(s): | Habitat destruction (dams), water pollution. |
| Conservation Actions: | It is listed in the Appendix III of the Bern Convention. |
| Citation: | Freyhof, J. 2011. Pachychilon pictum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 08 February 2012. |
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