Zingel balcanicus

The ray-finned fish

Zingel balcanicus is a ray-finned fish in the family Percidae (order Perciformes).

Range and habitat

Zingel balcanicus is known only from the Beleshnica River, a small tributary of the upper Treska, itself a tributary of the Vardar in North Macedonia. This species is endemic to the Vardar or Axios River in North Macedonia and its distribution may extend to the lower reaches of the river in Greece.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

Zingel balcanicus is classified as Critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Threats to this species include damming, introduced rainbow trout and pollution. The distribution and population of the Vardar streber have declined since the mid 20th Century.

Zingel balcanicus is Critically 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 Zingel balcanicus, Wikidata item Q3242763. 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.