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Spirlin

Alburnoides bipunctatus

Classification

Alburnoides bipunctatus, the schneider, spirlin, bleak, riffle minnow or bystranka, is a species of brackish and fresh water ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, the minnows and related fishes. This is a widespread species in Europe. Taxonomy Alburnoides bipunctatus was first formally described as Cyprinus bipunctatus in 1782 by the German naturalist and physician Marcus Elieser Bloch, with its type locality given as the Weser River near Minden in Germany.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 95,692Belgium · 536Switzerland · 531Germany · 167Netherlands · 144Luxembourg · 121