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Stymphalia chub
Squalius moreoticus
The Stymphalia chub (Squalius moreoticus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. This fish is endemic to Greece.
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Description
The Stymphalia chub is told apart from other Balkan chubs by the anal fin having a straight rear margin. The dorsal fin typically has 9+1⁄2 branched rays, and the mouth is terminal. This species has a maximum standard length of 21 cm (8.3 in).
Range & habitat
The Stymphalia chub is endemic to southern Greece, where it is restricted to the Lake Stymphalia basin and the nearby Vouraikos catchment in the northeastern Peloponnese.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
In human culture
The Stymphalia chub belongs to the genus Squalius. This name was proposed by the French biologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1837 for a subgenus of the genus Leuciscus for the Italian chub (Squalius cephalus), inserting an additional "i" to prevent homonymy with the spurdog genus Squalus. In classical Latin the chub and the spurdog were homonyms as squalus. An alternative explanation was that the name is a latinisation of squaglio, a vernacular name for the Italian chub in Rome and its environs. The specific name, moreoticus, means "belonging to Morea", a former name for the Peloponnese Peninsula where the Lake Stymphalia, the type locality, is located.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 113012.