Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 47(3): 317-320, doi: 10.3750/AIEP/02187
The first record of non-native largemouth black bass, Micropterus salmoides (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Centrarchidae), in Bosnia and Herzegovina
P. Tutman, A. Hamzić, A. Džano, J. DulčićCorresponding author: P. Tutman © P. Tutman, A. Hamzić, A. Džano, J. Dulčić. 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:
Tutman P, Hamzić A, Džano A, Dulčić J (2017) The first record of non-native largemouth black bass, Micropterus salmoides (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Centrarchidae), in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 47(3): 317-320. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIEP/02187 |  |
Abstract
This paper describes the first record of the largemouth black bass, Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)—a non-native fish species—in the freshwaters of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A single specimen was captured in the Sava River near the small town of Kaoci (northern Bosnia and Herzegovina) in December 2014. The origin of this introduction is not known, but most probably it was a dispersal from neighbouring freshwater habitats from other parts of the Sava River basin in Croatia and the Danube River in Serbia.
Keywords
fish introduction, exotic species, competition, Sava River basin, Balkan Peninsula