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Albanian Roach

Pachychilon pictum

Classification

Pachychilon pictum, the Albanian roach or Albanian minnow, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. This species is endemic to the Western Balkans and has been introduced to France and Italy. Taxonomy Pachychilon pictum was first formally described as Squalius pictus in 1858 by the Austrian ichthyologists Johann Jakob Heckel and Rudolf Kner with its type locality given as the Reka river in Montenegro.

Distribution

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France · 2,646