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Arade Chub

Squalius aradensis

Classification

Squalius aradensis, the Arade chub, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This species is found in Portugal. Taxonomy Squalius aradensis was first formally described as Leuciscus aradensis in 1998 by Maria Manuela Coelho, Nina Gidalevna Bogutskaya, José Armando Rodrigues and Maria João Collares-Pereira, with its type locality given as Arade River, Silves, in the Arade basin in Portugal.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Portugal · 6