Russian Spirlin

Alburnoides rossicus has a wide distribution in the Baltic States and Eastern Europe, it is found in the Dniester, Southern Bug and Dnieper rivers draining into the Black Sea basin, the Don River drainage in the Sea of Azov basin and the Volga River drainage in the Caspian Sea basin. It is also found in all of the rivers flowing to the southeastern Baltic Sea from the Pasłęka River in Poland to the Pärnu River in Estonia. Its habitat is streams and rivers where there is swift to moderately fast running water, in shallow areas over gravel, pebble or rocks.

== References ==

Alburnoides rossicus belongs to the genus Alburnoides, this name suffixes -oides on to the genus name Alburnus, which is Latin for whitefish but also refers to the bleak, a name which means pale in English, in reference to the pale non lustrous colour of Alburnus alburnus. The suffix -oides is used to indicate that this taxon is similar to Alburnus, with the type species of the Alburnoides being Alburnus maculatus. The specific name, rossicus, means "belonging to Russia", the type locality.