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2. occurence and status of species of the genera Cobitis, Sabanejewia, and Misgurnus in Slovakia

Creator:
Koščo, Ján, Lusk, Stanislav, Pekárik, Ladislav, Košuthová, Lenka, Lusková, Věra, and Košuth, Peter
Type:
article and TEXT
Subject:
Danubian spined loach, weather loach, Balcan spiny loach, occurence, Tisza basin, Danube basin, and devastating factors
Language:
English
Description:
In Slovakia, Cobitis elongatoides (Bacescu et Mayer, 1969), Sabanejewia balcanica (Karaman, 1922), and Misgurnus fossilis (Linnaeus, 1758) are protected by national legislative, and localities of European importance have been delimited for these species within the Natura 2000 system. In Slovakia, the three species only occur in the Black Sea river system (the Danube and Tisza R. basin). Of them, C. elongatoides is the most widely distributed and most numerous both in its pure form and its hybrid, diploid-polyploid complexes (C. elongatoides x C. tanaitica). It occurs in proper streams and in natural as well as in artificial aquatic habitats, above all, in lowland regions. Comparing data on this species from 1955–1965, no major changes have been found. S. balcanica occurs chiefly in the middle reaches of rivers, first of all, in the Bodrog drainage area (the Laborec, Ondava, Topľa R.) in eastern Slovakia. In the western part of Slovakia (the Danube river system) the occurrence of this species is distinctly less frequent and insular. The distribution of the species has been markedly affected by water pollution, construction of dams and reservoirs, and river bed modifications. The occurrence of M. fossilis is almost exclusively limited to the lowland regions of eastern Slovakia and the Danube Lowland. In those regions, the amelioration measures taken during the second part of the 20th century caused the original natural wetlands to vanish – together with the occurrence of this species. However, M. fossilis found a secondary suitable environment in man-made hydro-amelioration channels, earth pits, and fishponds.
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