Endangered
Alburnus macedonicus
Alburnus macedonicus
Alburnus macedonicus is a minnow in the family Cyprinidae (order Cypriniformes), recorded as Endangered.
The minnow
It can grow to 14.5 cm (5.7 in) standard length.
Minnows and barbs are ray-finned freshwater fishes without teeth in the jaws; they grind food with pharyngeal teeth.
Carps, minnows, and loaches. They lack jaw teeth and live in freshwater.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Doiran Lake in Greece and North Macedonia. It is threatened by falling water level in the lake.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Alburnus macedonicus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Alburnus macedonicus — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q581001. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.


