Alburnus alburnus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Artaev, Oleg & Ruchin, Alexander B., 2017, The ichthyofauna of the Moksha River, a tributary of the Volga river basin, Russia, Check List 13 (4), pp. 185-202 : 193

Alburnus alburnus ( Linnaeus, 1758) , Bleak

Cyprinus alburnus Linnaeus 1758: 325 .

Alburnus alburnus — Kottelat and Freyhof 2007: 164.

Material examined. Table 1; Fig. 7C.

Presence of 45–48+3 lateral line scales; 17–20 branched anal-fin rays; and 16–22 gill rakers on first gill arch. It is an abundant species and is absent only in ponds; recorded in all sampled rivers at a distance of 26 to 500 km from the source. In upstream sections of rivers (up to 25 km from the source), its occurrence rate was 28.2%; in other water bodies, the rate varied from 16.1% in landlocked oxbows to 37.5% in flowing oxbows. The percentage of A. alburnus in catches increase with the size of the river, reaching 40% in sections of river between 200 and 500 km from the source. Its abundance in other water bodies is considerably smaller, about 1–9.1%.