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Ural River is also important for many fish species of the Caspian Sea which visit its delta and migrate upstream for spawning. In the lower reaches of the river there are 47 species from 13 families. The family Cyprinidae account for 40%, sturgeon and herring make up 11%, perch and herring 9% and salmon 4.4%.
Salmo ciscaucasicus, the Caspian salmon or Terek trout, is a salmonid fish endemic to the Caspian Sea and its inflowing rivers. [2] It was described in 1967 originally as a subspecies of Salmo trutta. [3] S. ciscaucasicus lives on the western shore of the lake from northern Azerbaijan to the Ural River, while the main breeding river is the ...
The white-finned gudgeon (Romanogobio albipinnatus) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It lives in the North Caspian basin in lower parts of the Volga and Ural River drainages. They can reach 13 cm in length.
Thanks to Wisconsin’s diverse landscapes, there are approximately 1,800 species of native plants and nearly 700 species of native vertebrates – animals with a backbone, like fish, reptiles ...
The fish's suckermouth, with its fleshy lips, is located in an inferior position at the bottom of its head, as the fish obtains its food from bottom surfaces. [5] The white sucker is often mistaken for different species of suckers and redhorses , but can be distinguished by the complete lateral line system containing 55–85 small scales. [ 6 ]
Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at 920-996-7266 or mheim@gannett.com .
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe's third-longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 10,000 homes and forcing ...
On June 21, 2013, Noah LaBarge (12 years old) [50] caught the Wisconsin state record bigmouth buffalo fish. [51] It measured 49.5 inches (126 cm) and weighed 76.5 pounds (34.7 kg). [51] It was caught on 8-lb-test line [50] on the Wisconsin River at Devil's Elbow, [citation needed] which is on the north end of the Petenwell Flowage. It was ...