Scardinius knezevici
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| Scardinius knezevici | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Scardinius |
| Species: | S. knezevici |
| Binomial name | |
| Scardinius knezevici | |
Scardinius knezevici, the Skadar rudd, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This species is endemic to the Western Balkans.
Scardinius knezevici was first formally described in 2005 by the ichthyologists Pier Giorgio Bianco and Maurice Kottelat with its type locality given as Lake Skadar, near a bridge crossing a branch of the lake, near Vranjina village, at former Podgorica University Ichthyological station in the Republic of Montenegro.[2] This species belongs to the genus Scardinius, commonly referred to as rudds, which belongs to the subfamily Leuciscinae of the family Leuciscidae.[3]
Etymology
Scardinius knezevici belongs to the genus Scardinius and this name is thought to be a latinisation of scardafa, a vernacular name in Italy, Rome in particular, for the Tiber rudd (Scardinius scardafa). The Specific name is an eponym and honours the Yugoslav (Montenegrin) biologist Borivoj Knezevic who studies and worked to conserve the freshwater fishes of Montenegro.[4]