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RECENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENDEMICITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA’S ICHTHYOFAUNA
S. B. Georgijev
Sažetak
In the paper is listed the newest number of undisputable endemic fish species inhabiting the waters of the Republic of Macedonia. Among 43 native species stated in the past for the waters of Republic of Macedonia, 23 are accepted as endems, what is in total more than half, more precisely 53 %. The richest on endemic species is the flow of the Drim River, the Adriatic Sea watershed. Here are listed 12 endemic fishes of total 23, in percent this is a 52 %. Other two riverine flows this of the main Macedonian in the same time state’s and central balkanian riverine flow, the Vardar River flow and the Struma River flow belong to the Aegean Sea watershed. They have almost the same relative amount of endemic species, 32 % the Vardar River flow and 31 % the Struma river flow, beside their absolute numbers of native species are quite different.
The Vardar River flow consist 25 in total native species, eighth of them endemic and the Struma River flow consist 15 native species (stated in the boundaries of the Republic of Macedonia), five of them are endemics. When the most of the endemic species are cited for the four neighbor countries (Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria), the species Zingel balcanicus (Karaman, 1936) until now is listed only for the waters of Republic of Macedonia, the middle part of the River Vardar and the Treska River salmonid one confluent. For sorry, this species is very sensitive on the pollution, so might to be extinct because the last data for alive sample caught to is from 1974.
Ključne riječi
Republic of Macedonia; fish; endems
Hrčak ID:
4707
URI
Datum izdavanja:
24.6.2004.
Posjeta: 1.730 *