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- Title
Threatened fishes of the world: Salmo dentex (Heckel 1852) (Salmonidae).
- Authors
Tutman, Pero; Glamuzina, Branko; Dulčić, Jakov
- Abstract
The article offers information on Salmo dentex, tooth trout. Salmon fish is identified to have a laterally compressed body, back with sliverish color fading gradually to white in the abdomen, pointed head, narrow snout and greyish fins that turning in orange during the spawning season. Salmo dentex is declared to be a vulnerable and critically endangered which is locally inhabiting in the main rivers of the Adriatic watershed in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro. Recommendations for conservation of the tooth trout, includes an effective habitat protection, specially of spawning areas and water quality enhancement and a detailed study of current population status, biology and ecology.
- Subjects
CROATIA; BOSNIA &; Herzegovina; AQUATIC ecology; FISH conservation; AQUATIC animals; ENDANGERED species; RARE fishes; SALMO; SALMONIDAE; TROUT; WATERSHED ecology; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS; HEALTH
- Publication
Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2008, Vol 82, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0378-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10641-007-9273-y