The southernmost barbel ( Bearded meridionalis ) is a fish Cyprinidé kind Barbus . Smaller than most common of the Barbel X, he lives close to the funds in clear and current water. It is also named: Mottled barbel, barbel, drogan, durgan, tourgan or turgan according to the departments of the south of France.

The southernmost barbel is spread, by small islands, since the north of the Iberian peninsula (where the subspecies Barbus meridionalis graellsi saw) until the Albania, the Greece and the Peloponnese. In the Oder, the the Vistula, the the Danube, the Dniestr, the Vardar, the Strouma and the Maritza saw the subspecies Barbus meridionalis petenyi .

It is registered like Rare in the red book of the species threatened of water fish soft written by the International union of Nature conservation (UICN)

Source

• Study on the southernmost barbel

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