Romanogobio albipinnatus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	CYPRINIFORMES	CYPRINIDAE

Scientific Name:

Romanogobio albipinnatus

Species Authority:

(Lukasch, 1933)

Common Name/s:

English

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White-finned Gudgeon

Synonym/s:

Gobio albipinnatus Lukasch, 1933

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Published:

2008

Assessor/s:

Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M.

Reviewer/s:

Bogutskaya, N., & Smith, K. (IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit)

Justification:
A relatively widespread species, found in the lowland rivers of the Ural and Volga, where it is locally threatened by pollution and river engineering.

History:

1996

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Data Deficient

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Northern Caspian basin (Volga, Ural).
Countries:	Native: Kazakhstan; Russian Federation
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Population [top]

Population:	Abundant.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Habitat: Bottom of moderately flowing lowland rivers, prefers sand bottom. Biology: Lives up to five years. Spawns for the first time at two years. Females spawn up to four times during a season at about two-week intervals in May-July. Nocturnal benthic, feeds on insect larvae and other larger benthic invertebrates.
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Pollution and river engineering.

Major Threat(s):

Pollution and river engineering.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	No information.

Conservation Actions:

No information.

Bibliography [top]

	IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008). Kottelat, M. and Freyhof, J. 2007. Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland. Naseka, A.M. 2001. Contribution to the knowledge of infraspecific structure of whitefin gudgeon Romanogobio albipinnatus (Lukasch, 1933) (Cyprinidae: Gobioninae), w ith a description of a new subspecies, R. albipinnatus tanaiticus, from the Don drainage. Naseka et al. 1999. in: Banarescu, P. (ed.) The freshwater fishes of Europe. Vol 5/1. Cyprinidae 2/I. Aula, Wiebelsheim.

IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008).

Kottelat, M. and Freyhof, J. 2007. Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland.

Naseka, A.M. 2001. Contribution to the knowledge of infraspecific structure of whitefin gudgeon Romanogobio albipinnatus (Lukasch, 1933) (Cyprinidae: Gobioninae), w ith a description of a new subspecies, R. albipinnatus tanaiticus, from the Don drainage.

Naseka et al. 1999. in: Banarescu, P. (ed.) The freshwater fishes of Europe. Vol 5/1. Cyprinidae 2/I. Aula, Wiebelsheim.

Citation:	Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Romanogobio albipinnatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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