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The saltwater fish of Romania are the Black Sea species of fish that live in the territorial waters of Romania. A 2005 biodiversity inventory of the Romanian waters identified around 140 species and subspecies of marine fish. [12] Many of the species have seen their stocks plummet in the last 50 years due to commercial exploitation.
The Romanian barbel (Barbus petenyi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Barbus. It occurs in the lower Danube basin of Bulgaria and Romania, as well as in several rivers of Bulgaria flowing into the Black Sea, such as Kamchiya. [2] The species is named after János Salamon Petényi. Males can reach 25 cm in length.
A Romanian NGO, the Bucharest Institute of Biology, has worked to preserve this species with the financial support of the Regional Environmental Center. [5] Official estimates assert that no more than 15 specimens are living in a 1 km 2 (0.39 sq mi) area of the Vâlsan; observations as of October 2022 have confirmed 58 individuals.
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The mojarras are a family, Gerreidae, of fish in the order Perciformes.The family includes about 53 species found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate regions. They mostly inhabit coastal salt and brackish waters, although some occur in fresh water.
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Fishes of the World is a standard reference for the systematics of fishes.It was first written in 1976 by the American ichthyologist Joseph S. Nelson (1937–2011). Now in its fifth edition (2016), the work is a comprehensive overview of the diversity and classification of the 30,000-plus fish species known to science.