Pachychilon pictum
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Pachychilon |
| Species: | P. pictum |
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Pachychilon pictum, the Albanian roach or Albanian minnow, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. This species is endemic to the Western Balkans and has been introduced to France and Italy.
Pachychilon pictum was first formally described as Squalius pictus in 1858 by the Austrian ichthyologists Johann Jakob Heckel and Rudolf Kner with its type locality given as the Reka river in Montenegro.[2] In 1882 Franz Steindachner proposed a new subgenus of Leuciscus named Pachychilon for this species, Pachychilon is now regarded as a valid genus and this species is the type species of that genus by monotypy. The genus Pachychilon within the subfamily Leuciscinae of the family Leuciscidae.[3]
Etymology
Pachychilon pictum is a member of the genus Pachychilon a name which combine pachys, meaning thick, with chilon, a latinisation of cheilos, which means lips, a reference to the thick lips of the fishes in this genus. The specific name, pictum, means "painted", an allusion to the variously sized and located dark brown marks on the body.[4]
