The streber, also known as the Danube streber, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Percidae. It is found in strongly flowing waters in the Danube and Dniester drainages of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Crotatia and the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine.
The Danube streber is a bottom-dwelling, nocturnal habitat specialist found in large rivers in relatively fast-flowing water flow and stony substrates (Zanuer 1996, Kottelat & Freyhof 2007). The species is very sensitive to river engineering measures and especially impoundments; even in the distribution area shown, the species has a very sporadic presence (Bănăduc & Curtean-Bănăduc 2014). In the Slovenian Mur it was rare (Weiss 2017), but Simonović et al. (2015) reported presence in Mrna, Krka, Kolpa Savnija and Sotla tributaries of the Sava in Slovenia and Croatia, in the Sava by Davor in Croatia and Babina-Greta in Bosnia and Croatia and the Fojnica in Bosnia; further records stem from the Drava, Sutla, Sava, Una, and Kupa rivers in Croatia (Bănăduc & Curtean- Bănăduc 2014) and the middle Drina in Serbia (Simonović et al. 2015).
More than 50 planned hydropower schemes on the Mur, Drava, Sava and Danube rivers threaten at least 75% of these species' occurrence in the Balkan region.
Conservation status right now: Least concern
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Percidae, like I said.
Subfamily: Luciopercinae
Genus: Zingel
Species: Z. Streber ( yeah that's it )
Bionomial name: Zingel streber
( Prof Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, 1863 )
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What to know about the Streber
RandomA good reading for an very obscure least concern fish.
