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Pike Asps
Aspiolucius
Aspiolucius is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae. The only species in the genus is Aspiolucius esocinus, the pike asp, This species is found in Central Asia in rivers such as the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and occasionally lakes in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, where it was a common fish until 1980s. After that, the population had rapidly declined, so that the species was declared endangered in these countries, and extinct in the neighboring Kazakhstan. This species can reach a total length of 50 cm (20 in).
== References ==
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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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 86674.