Abrau sprat, Clupeonella abrau, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Clupeidae.[2] It is found landlocked in Russia in a single locality, Lake Abrau, located at 70 m above sea level near the Black Sea coast close to Novorossiysk.[3] The lake is small and has been stocked by several alien species, whence the Abrau sprat is considered critically endangered.[4] As a result of the 2019 expedition, several individuals of the Abrau sprat were caught and their mitocondrial genome were sequenced, which showed their identity with the museum specimens.[5] This confirmed that the C. abrau is present in the fish community and is capable of reproducing in the Lake Abrau.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Ehiravidae |
| Genus: | Clupeonella |
| Species: | C. abrau
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| Clupeonella abrau (Maliatsky, 1930)
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A sprat of the Lake Apolyont in Turkey, linked to the Sea of Marmara, was earlier treated as a subspecies of the Abrau sprat, Clupeonella abrau muhilisi, but has more recently been considered an independent species Clupeonella muhlisi.[1][6]
Sources
edit- ^ a b Freyhof, J.; Kottelat, M. (2008). "Clupeonella abrau". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T4985A11106744. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T4985A11106744.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Species Clupeonella abrau Maliatsky 1930". FishWisePro. 1930. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Clupeonella abrau". FishBase.
- ^ Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. (2008). "Clupeonella abrau". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. IUCN: e.T4985A11106744. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T4985A11106744.en. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ a b Karabanov, D.P.; Pereboev, D.D.; Efeykin, B.D.; Kodukhova, Yu.V.; Kotov, A.A. (2024). "Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Clupeonella abrau (Maliatsky, 1930) (Clupeiformes), an Endemic Freshwater Fish from the Lake Abrau (Russia)". Doklady Biological Sciences. 517 (1): 63–68. doi:10.1134/S0012496624700996. ISSN 0012-4966. PMID 38955884.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Clupeonella muhlisi". FishBase.
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