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Alburnus alburnus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Cypriniformes
family
Cyprinidae
genus
Alburnus
species
Alburnus alburnus

Name

Synonyms
Abramis alburnus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Abramis dobuloides Günther, 1857
Alborella maxima Fatio, 1882
Alburnis alborella maxima Fatio, 1882
Alburnus acutus Bonaparte, 1845
Alburnus acutus Heckel, 1843
Alburnus alborella lateristriga Canestrini, 1864
Alburnus alborella maxima Fatio, 1882
Alburnus alborella var. lateristriga Canestrini, 1864
Alburnus alborellus maximus Fatio, 1882
Alburnus alburnus alburnus
Alburnus alburnus charusini Herzenstein, 1889
Alburnus alburnus hohenackerkumbaschensis Petrov, 1926
Alburnus alburnus strumicae Karaman, 1955
Alburnus arquatus Fatio, 1882
Alburnus ausonii Bonaparte, 1845
Alburnus avola Bonaparte, 1846
Alburnus breviceps Heckel & Kner, 1858
Alburnus charusini Herzenstein, 1889
Alburnus fabraei Blanchard, 1866
Homonyms
Alburnus alburnus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common names
Ablette in French
Ablette in French
Ablette in French
Ablé in French
Alborella in Italian
Albur in Spanish
Alburno in Spanish
Almindelig løje in Danish
Alver in Dutch
Benlöja in Swedish
Blanchet in French
Bleak in English
Bleak in English
Bleak in English
Bleak in English
Bleue in French
Coureur in French
European bleak in English
Garlesco in French
Inci baligi in Turkish
Lang-Bleck in German
Laube in German
Laube in French
Laube in German
Laube in German
Laue in Norwegian
Löja in Swedish
Løje in Danish
Løje in Danish
Løye in Norwegian
Milling in Danish
Mirandelle in French
Nablo in French
Nablé in French
Oblet in Romanian
Ouklej obecná in Czech
Plasica in Macedonian
Ravanesco in French
Ruivaca in Portuguese
Salakka in Finnish
Sardine in French
Szélhajtó küsz in Hungarian
Ukelei in German
Ukelei in German
Ukelei in German
Ukelei in German
Ukelei in German
Ukelei in German
Ukelei in German
Ukleja in Polish

Bibliographic References

  1. (2012) Catalog of Fishes - version of 2 October 2012.
  2. Barbieri, R., S. Zogaris, E. Kalogianni, M. Th. Stoumboudi, Y. Chatzinikolaou, S. Giakoumi, et al., 2015: null. Freshwater fishes and lampreys of Greece. An annotated checklist. Monographs on Marine Sciences No. 8. 1-129.
  3. Buj, Ivana, Jasna Vukic, Radek Sanda, Silvia Perea, Marko Caleta, Zoran Marcic, Ivan Bogut, et al., 2010: Morphological comparison of bleaks (Alburnus, Cyprinidae) from the Adriatic basin with the description of a new species. Folia Zoologica, vol. 59, no. 2. 129-141.
  4. Caleta, M., Z. Marcic, I. Buj, D. Zanella, P. Mustafic, A. Duplic, and S. Horvatic, 2019: A review of extant Croatian freshwater fish and lampreys, annotated list and distribution. Croatian Journal of Fisheries, vol. 77. 137-234.
  5. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  6. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
  7. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
  8. Kottelat, Maurice, 1997: European freshwater fishes. Biologia (Bratislava), vol. 52, suppl. 5. 1-271.
  9. Kottelat, Maurice, and Jörg Freyhof, 2007: null. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. 1-646.
  10. Kullander (1999) Förteckning över svenska fiskar
  11. Kullander, Nyman, Jilg & Delling (2012) Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna. Ryggsträngsdjur: Strålfeniga fiskar. Chordata: Actinopterygii
  12. Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
  13. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  14. Perea, S., M. Böhme, P. Zupancic, J. Freyhof, R. Sanda, M. Özulug, A. Abdoli, and I. Doadrio, 2010: Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographical patterns in circum-Mediterranean subfamily Leuciscinae (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) inferred from both mitochondrial and nuclear data. BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 10, no. 265. 1-27.
  15. Van Emmerik, W.A.M. & De Nie, H.W. (2005)
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