Blicca bjoerkna ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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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)
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