Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 44(4): 319-322, doi: 10.3750/AIP2014.44.4.06
Range expansion of Pachychilon macedonicum (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) in northern Greece
D.C. Bobori, G. Romanidis-Kyriakidis, Ch. Ntislidou, O. Petriki, A. PatsiaCorresponding author: D.C. Bobori © D.C. Bobori, G. Romanidis-Kyriakidis, Ch. Ntislidou, O. Petriki, A. Patsia. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Bobori D, Romanidis-Kyriakidis G, Ntislidou C, Petriki O, Patsia A (2014) Range expansion of Pachychilon macedonicum (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) in northern Greece. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 44(4): 319-322. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2014.44.4.06 |  |
Abstract
The cyprinid freshwater fish, Pachychilon macedonicum (Steindachner, 1892), is an endemic species in the Balkan Peninsula and has a restricted distribution in Greece. Here, we report new records of the species out of its known natural range, namely at the Mpogdanas Stream (drainage area of lakes Koronia-Volvi, northern Greece), which now constitute a new eastern limit for the distribution of the species in southern Balkans. It appears that the new record is related to a human-mediated translocation.
Keywords
endemics, south Balkan Peninsula, freshwater fish distribution, eastern limit