Dnieper chub
| Dnieper chub | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Petroleuciscus |
| Species: | P. borysthenicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Petroleuciscus borysthenicus (Kessler, 1859)
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The Dnieper chub or the Black Sea chub (Petroleuciscus borysthenicus) is a species of cyprinid fish from Eastern Europe. It is found in Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. It lives up to eight years.
Sources
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Petroleuciscus borysthenicus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Petroleuciscus borysthenicus". FishBase.
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