Il cobite del lago di Prespa, Cobitis meridionalis Karaman, 1924

Nomi comuni esteri - Grecia - Vrygovelonitsa. Inglese - Prespa spined loach. Repubblica Ceca - Sekavec albánský.

Cobitis meridionalis Karaman, 1924. Pisces Macedoniae. Sinonimo senior, cambio di grado, nomenclatura ICZN valida.

Cobitis taenia meridionalis Karaman, 1924. Pisces Macedoniae. Split (Hrvatska Stamparija). Pisces Macedoniae.: 1-90. Sinonimo senior. combinazione originale, nomenclatura ICZN non valida. Opinioni - Sinonimo di Cobitis taenia Linnaeus 1758, ma valida sottospecie, come da descrizione, per Lelek 1987:247. Nomenclatura valida come Cobitis meridionalis Karaman 1924, secondo Economidis & Nalbant 1996:308, Kottelat 1997:88, Erkakan et al. 1999:25, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:309. Località tipo: Lago di Prespa e piccoli torrenti tributari, Repubblica di Macedonia, Grecia ed Albania. Tipo: nessuno. Sintipi: collocazione attuale ignota.

Fonti bibliografiche principali - Kottelat M. and J. Freyhof 2007. Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Kottelat, Cornol, Switzerland and Freyof, Berlin, Germany. Pagina 309 - 310.

Bibliografia - Borbori, D. C., P. S. Economidis and E. G. Maurakis, 2001 Freshwater fish habitat science and management in Greece. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 4: 381-391.

Crivelli, A. J. and Lee, T-W. 2000. Observations on age, growth and fecundity of Cobitis meridionalis, an endemic loach of Prespa lake (Greece). Folia Zoologica 49 (Suppl. I): 121–127.

Crivelli, A. J., 1996 The freshwater fish endemic to the Mediterranean region. An action plan for their conservation. Tour du Valat Publication, 171 p.

Crivelli, A. J. 2006. Cobitis meridionalis. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Economidis, P. S., 1973 Catalogue of the fishes of Greece. Reprinted from Hellenic Oceanology and Limnology, Praktika of the Inst. of Ocean. and Fishing Research, vol. 11 (1972).

Economidis, P. S., 1991 Check list of freshwater fishes of Greece (recent status of threats and protection). Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature, Special publication, 48 p.

Economidis, P. S., E. Dimitriou, R. Pagoni, E. Michaloudi and L. Natsis, 2000 Introduced and translocated fish species in the inland waters of Greece. Fish. Manage. Ecol. 7:239-250.

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Hanel, L. and J. Novák, 2002 Ceské názvy zivocichu V. Ryby a ryboviti obratlovci (Pisces) 3., maloústí (Gonorhynchiformes) - máloostní (Cypriniformes). Národní muzeum (zoologické oddelení), Praha.

Hilton-Taylor, C., 2000 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. xviii + 61 p.

Kottelat, M., 1997 European freshwater fishes. Biologia 52, Suppl. 5:1-271.

Perdices, A. and Doadrio, I. 2001. The molecular systematics and biogeography of the European Cobitids based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19: 468–478.