Telestes ukliva

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Telestes ukliva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Telestes
Species:
T. ukliva
Binomial name
Telestes ukliva
(Heckel, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Leuciscus ukliva (Heckel, 1843)
  • Squalius ukliva Heckel, 1843

Telestes ukliva, the Ukliva dace,

ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae
. Endemic to the Cetina river in Croatia and reported as extinct in the 1990s, it was rediscovered in 1997. Earlier authors misidentified T. ukliva as the alien Telestes muticellus and erroneously considered T. ukliva to be extinct.[1] Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by
habitat loss
.

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