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Lake Bleak

Alburnus mento

Classification

Alburnus mento, the lake bleak, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the minnows, daces and related fishes. Its distribution is in subalpine lakes in Germany and Austria. Taxonomy Alburnus mento was first formally described as Aspius mento in 1837 by the Austrian ichthyologist Johann Jakob Heckel with its type locality given as Lake Traunsee, near Gmunden in Austria.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Austria · 23