Epirus minnow

Pelasgus epiroticus
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Pelasgus
Species:	P. epiroticus
Binomial name
Pelasgus epiroticus (Steindachner, 1895)
Synonyms
Paraphoxinus epiroticus Steindachner, 1895 Phoxinellus epiroticus (Steindachner, 1895)

Epirus minnow^[1][2] or tsima^[3] (pelasgus epiroticus), is a species of freshwater minnow in the Cyprinidae family. It is endemic to lake Pamvotis in Greece. Due to the restricted range of the species as well as the significant loss its population suffered since the early 1990s it has been assessed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).^[4]

Sources

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Pelasgus epiroticus" in FishBase. August 2011 version.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Phoxinellus epiroticus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.

References

1. Leonardos, I. D.; Kagalou, I; Tsoumani, M; Economidis, P. S. (2008). "Fish fauna in a Protected Greek lake: biodiversity, introduced fish species over a 80-year period and their impacts on the ecosystem". Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 17 (1): 165–173. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0633.2007.00268.x.
2. Perdikaris, C; Nathanailides, C; Gouva, E; Karipoglou, C; Paschos, I (2005). "Collapse of Epirus minnow (Pseudophoxinus epiroticus) population in Lake Pamvotis, Greece (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 16 (4): 371–374.
3. Kottelat, Maurice; Freyhof, Jörg (2007). Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Cornol, Switzerland: Publications Kottelat. p. 215.
4. Crivelli, A. J. "Pelasgus epiroticus". IUCN 2014. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Retrieved 22 June 2014.