Endangered
Dalmatian barbelgudgeon
Aulopyge huegelii
The Dalmatian barbelgudgeon is a European ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae.
The minnow
The female deposits her eggs, that measure about 1.5-2.0 mm, in rock and gravel fissures with a specialized ovipositor.
Range and habitat
It is found in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, where it inhabits the karst. It occurs in some creeks in the Livanjsko field, in the Cetina, Krka and perhaps Zrmanja Rivers, and it was successfully introduced to Lake Blidin and Busko Blato. It apparently moves into karst caves for spawning, that occurs in the month after the water temperature has reached 20 °C (68 °F).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
The Dalmatian barbelgudgeon is mainly nocturnal.
In crisis
Even though the genus was established in 1841, the species was only mentioned but not described at that time. That happened the following year, and in 1843, the frequently-seen misspelling huegeli was introduced. Even though its stocks are declining (it was once present in the Zrmanja River, but may have gone extinct there), it is still locally numerous. But damming of its home rivers, unsustainable water extraction for agriculture, water pollution and perhaps introduced species threaten its long-term survival.
It is therefore classified as endangered by the IUCN.
Dalmatian barbelgudgeon 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 Dalmatian barbelgudgeon, Wikidata item Q781426. 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.
