Calandino

Squalius alburnoides has a wide distribution in the river systems draining into the Atlantic Ocean in the western Iberian Peninsula from the Douro south to the Guadalquivir. It has been introduced into the Guadalhorce and Júcar rivers in Spain, drainages that flow into the Mediterranean Sea. The calandino is found in rivers and streams at varying altitudes and with differing flows, but tends to avoid the wide, deep lowland stretches of rivers.

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Squalius alburnoides 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, alburnoides, means "of the form of Alburnus", an allusion to the long body, notched teeth and upward pointing snout which resembles the shape of the bleaks in the genus Alburnus.