Blicca bjoerkna ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Sungur, Sevil, Fricke, Ronald & Seçer, Burak, 2023, Freshwater lampreys and fishes of Türkiye; an annotated checklist, 2023, Turkish Journal of Zoology 47 (6), pp. 324-468 : 394-395

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scientific name

Blicca bjoerkna ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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Blicca bjoerkna ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL [N] ― White bream/ Tahta balığı

Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus bjoerkna Linnaeus, 1758: 326 [Greifswald, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, 54°05′N, 13°23′E, Germany; neotype: SMNS 12668]. ― Synonyms: Abramis bjoerkna ( Linnaeus, 1758) . ― Revisions: None. ― Illustration: None.

Status in Türkiye. Listed in previous checklists from Türkiye by Kuru (2004); Geldiay and Balık (2007); Fricke et al. (2007) as Abramis bjoerkna ; Kuru et al. (2014); Çiçek et al. (2015, 2020). ― Turkish material: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Türkiye: Marmara, Aegean and Black Sea watersheds. ― Distribution in river basins: 1-Meriç-Ergene, 2-Marmara, 3-Susurluk, 12- Sakarya, 13-Batı Karadeniz, 24-Aras. ― General distribution: Eurasia: Europe and Caspian Sea basin. ― Distribution in ecoregions: 418-Dniester - Lower Danube, 423-Thrace, 430-Northern Anatolia, 434- Kura - South Caspian Drainages. ― Habitat: This species inhabits a wide variety of shallow, warm lowland lakes and the slow-flowing lower reaches of large rivers and canals. Often, they are abundant on the bottom of large sandy rivers. Spawns along shores on submerged vegetation, roots, or even shallow gravel bottoms. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Conservation status in Türkiye: Unknown. ― IUCN: LC (IUCN, 2023). ― Threats: No major threats known. ― Low sensitivity to human activities. ― Not considered a keystone species. ― Decline status: Unknown. ― Low priority for conservation action. Blicca bjoerkna transcaucasica Berg, 1916 => not occurring in Türkiye (see Çiçek et al., 2020)

Capoeta holmwoodii => Chondrostoma holmwoodii Chalcalburnus chalcoides schischkovi => Alburnus schischkovi

Chalcalburnus mossulensis => Alburnus sellal Chalcalburnus schischkovi => Alburnus schischkovi Chalcalburnus sellal => Alburnus sellal

Chalcalburnus tarichi => Alburnus tarichi

Chondochilus regius => Chondrostoma regium

Berg LS (1916). Les Poissons des eaux douces de la Russie. Moscow. i-xxvii + 1 - 563 (in French).

Cicek E, Birecikligil SS, Fricke R (2015). Freshwater fishes of Turkey; a revised and updated annotated checklist. Biharean Biologists 9 (2): 141 - 157.

Cicek E, Sungur S, Fricke R (2020). Freshwater lampreys and fishes of Turkey; a revised and updated annotated checklist 2020. Zootaxa 4809 (2): 241 - 270.

Fricke R, Bilecenoglu M, Sari HM (2007). Annotated checklist of fish and lamprey species (Gnathostomata and Petromyzontomorphi) of Turkey, including a Red List of threatened and declining species. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) (706): 1 - 172.

Geldiay R, Balik S (2007). Freshwater Fishes of Turkey. V. Edition, Ege

Kuru M (2004). Recent systematic status of inland water fishes of Turkey. Journal of Education Faculty of Gazi 24: 1 - 21.

Kuru M, Yerli SV, Mangit F, Unlu E, Alp A (2014). Fish Biodiversity in Inland Waters of Turkey. Journal of Academic Documents for Fisheries and Aquaculture 1 (3): 93 - 120.

Linnaeus C (1758). Systema Naturae, Ed. X. (Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.) Holmiae. v. 1: i-ii + 1 - 824.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

Genus

Blicca