Stymphalia chub
species of fish
The Stymphalia chub (Squalius moreoticus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. This fish is endemic to Greece.
Taxonomy
The Stymphalia chub was first formally described as Leuciscus (Squalius) cephalus moreoticus in 1971 by the Greek zoologist Alexander I. Stephanidis, with its type locality given as Stymphalis Lake, Peloponnesus, i.e. the Peloponnese Peninsula, in Greece. This taxon was regarded as a synonym of the common chub (S. cephalus, but is now considered to be a valid species within the genus Squalius, belonging to the subfamily Leuciscinae of the family Leuciscidae.
Etymology
The Stymphalia chub belongs to the genus Squalius. This name was proposed by the French biologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1837 for a subgenus of the genus Leuciscus for the Italian chub (Squalius cephalus), inserting an additional "i" to prevent homonymy with the spurdog genus Squalus. In classical Latin the chub and the spurdog were homonyms as squalus. An alternative explanation was that the name is a latinisation of squaglio, a vernacular name for the Italian chub in Rome and its environs. The specific name, moreoticus, means "belonging to Morea", a former name for the Peloponnese Peninsula where the Lake Stymphalia, the type locality, is located.
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