Fish of the Salmo genus of the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family of the Salmoniformes order of the Protacanthopterygii superorder.
(Zubatak trout. Photo by © marcony. varalicar.com)
Zubatak trout (Salmo dentex) was first described in 1851 by the Austrian zoologist and ichthyologist Johann Jakob Heckel (1790 – 1857). It inhabits lakes and rather large fast-flowing rivers, as well as oxygenated water. The recorded maximum length is 88 cm. It feeds on bottom organisms and fishes.
(Zubatak trout. Photo by © marcony. varalicar.com)
It’s a rare inhabitant of the lower part of the Neretva River (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia), the Cetina River (Croatia), the Hutovo Blato River (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Morača River and possibly the Zeta River (Montenegro). It swims upstream the latter rivers in the spring-summer period from Lake Skadar (Montenegro, Albania), where it winters in deep areas.
Names of zubatak trout (Salmo dentex) in other languages are as follows:
Trofta e gjucës (Albanian), Trota zubatak (Italian), Zubatak (Croatian), Strun (Serbian).