Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Cyprinidae > Alburnoides > Alburnoides bipunctatusAlburnoides bipunctatus (Schneider; Spirlin; Riffle minnow; Chub; Bystranka; Bleak)Synonyms: Abramis bipunctatus; Alburnoides bipunctatus smyrnaea; Alburnoides bipunctatus tzanevi; Alburnoides tzanevi; Alburnus bipunctatus; Aspius bipunctatus; Cyprinus annoni; Cyprinus bipunctatus (homotypic); Cyprinus blockii; Cyprinus gronovii (heterotypic); Cyprinus punctatus; Cyprinus riemling; Cyprinus sanderi (heterotypic); Cyprinus spirlin; Cyprinus tinca notha (heterotypic); Leuciscus baldneri; Leuciscus bipunctatus; Spirlinus bipunctatus Language: Bulgarian; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Estonian; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Hungaria; Hungarian; Italian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Macedonian; Mandarin Chinese; Norwegian; Persian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Serbian; Slovak; Slovenian; Spanish; Swedish; Turkish Alburnoides bipunctatus, known vernacularly as the schneider, spirlin, bleak, riffle minnow, and others, is a species of small (9-cm average length) freshwater fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. This fish inhabits rivers with very calm waters, and it eats dead insects and insect larvae, diatoms, and crustaceans. It reproduces during April to June. |
Brood Dispersal [1] | In the open | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Lithophils | Brood Guarder [1] | No | Migration [2] | Potamodromous |  | Diet [1] | Omnivore |
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Cantabric Coast - Languedoc |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Grenouillet, G. & Schmidt-Kloiber., A.; 2006; Fish Indicator Database. Euro-limpacs project, Workpackage 7 - Indicators of ecosystem health, Task 4, www.freshwaterecology.info, version 5.0 (accessed on July 3, 2012). ♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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