Endangered
Neretvan nase
Chondrostoma knerii
Neretvan nase is a minnow in the family Cyprinidae (order Cypriniformes) — Chondrostoma knerii, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Neretvian nase is told apart from the other Balkan nases in the possession of between 50 and 59 scales along the lateral line. The mouth is arched with the lower lip having a thin horny sheath; there are 8 to 9+1⁄2 branched rays in the dorsal fin.
This species has a maximum total length of 29.4 cm (11.6 in).
Range and habitat
The Neretvian nase is endemicto the drainage basin of the Neretva in the Dinaric karst Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It is a fish of perennial rivers and their associated lakes, sinkholes and springs. This species is endemic to the catchment of the Neretva in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The Neretvian nase is classified as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Threats to this species include damming and other forms of river regulation, pollution, water abstraction, dredging and gravel extraction, invasive species and, maybe, overfishing.
Neretvan nase 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 Neretvan nase, Wikidata item Q861036. 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.
