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*Leucaspius delineatus*, commonly known as the Sunbleak, is a species of fish within the family Cyprinidae and order Cypriniformes. It belongs to the class Teleostei and phylum Chordata. The species was described by Heckel in 1843 and is currently accepted by the World Register of Marine Species. Other common names for this taxon include Moderlieschen, slunka obecná, vetje, and able de Heckel.
The organism inhabits brackish and freshwater environments. Its IUCN conservation status is listed as Least Concern, a designation recorded in 2024. Occurrence records indicate presence in countries including Romania, France, Norway, Germany, and Belgium. Various databases hold thousands of records and observations for this species, with collections held by institutions such as CUMV, UA, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, ZMO, and KU.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, iNaturalist, Gbif Occ, IUCN Red List, WoRMS, iDigBio. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
Least Concernable de Heckel
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCypriniformes
- FamilyCyprinidae
Belica are small fish with large eyes. With their relatively large mouth, they can gobble up eggs and larvae from fish and amphibians, although they eat mostly zooplankton. This fish species normally grows to a maximum of 7 centimeters and is olive green on top and silver underneath. The fish used to be considered a juvenile specimen of some other species. That is why not much is known about where the fish originated.
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 540
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Collections
- CUMV, UA, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, ZMO, KU, CAS
- Recorded in
- Romania, France, Norway, Germany, Belgium, China
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Leucaspius
- Image
- LeucaspiusDelineatusMale.JPG
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Leucaspius delineatus
- Commons category
- Leucaspius delineatus
- Commons gallery
- Leucaspius delineatus
- taxon common name
- regnlaue
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- short name
- L. delineatus
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Encyclopedic overview
Leucaspius is a monospecific genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Leuciscinae, of the family Leuciscidae. The only species in this genus is Leucaspius delineatus, known as the sunbleak, belica or moderlieschen. The species is found in Europe and Western Asia.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leucaspius delineatus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.