Abstract
The first voucher-confirmed record of Alburnus scoranza and the first morphological description of Alburnoides for the Vjosa River system in Albania are reported with a brief discussion of the diagnostic morphological traits and taxonomic assignment of both species.
Highlights
The Vjosa River (Aoos in Greece) belongs to the South Adriatic-Ionian zoogeographical division of Economidis and Bănărescu (1991) and is the southernmost river drainage of the Southeastern Adriatic ecoregion of Zogaris and Economou (2017)
The first voucher-confirmed record of Alburnus scoranza and the first morphological description of Alburnoides for the Vjosa River system in Albania are reported with a brief discussion of the diagnostic morphological traits and taxonomic assignment of both species
As the knowledge of the biodiversity in general and of the fish fauna in particular within the Vjosa River system in Albania is very scarce (Rakaj and Flloko 1995, Shumka et al 2018b), descriptions of fishes from this river system are commonly based on the study of Rakaj (1995)
Summary
The Vjosa River (Aoos in Greece) belongs to the South Adriatic-Ionian zoogeographical division of Economidis and Bănărescu (1991) and is the southernmost river drainage of the Southeastern Adriatic ecoregion of Zogaris and Economou (2017) It originates in western Greece, flows through Albania, and drains into the southern Adriatic Sea. Some genera of the Greek (e.g., Economidis 1989, Durand et al 1999, Economou et al 2007, Geiger et al 2014, Barbieri et al 2017, Koutsikos et al 2019) and the Albanian sections of the Vjosa/Aoos River (e.g., Šanda et al 2008, Marková et al 2010, Stierandová et al 2016) were investigated mostly within wider phylogenetic studies, and summarising lists of fish species in the Albanian section have been published.
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