Fish of the Salmo genus of the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family of the Salmoniformes order of the Protacanthopterygii superorder.
(Balkan brook trout. Photo by © B. Delling. ittiofauna.org)
Balkan brook trout (Salmo farioides) was first described in 1938 by the Macedonian biologist Stanko L. Karaman (1889 – 1959). It inhabits small fast-flowing rivers, oxygenated water. The recorded maximum length is 30 cm. It feeds mainly on bottom invertebrates. It may be a hybrid of native inhabitants of rivers.
It’s a rare inhabitant of the rivers of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia and Montenegro.
Names of Balkan brook trout (Salmo farioides) in other languages are as follows:
Trofta e Drinit (Albanian), Trota di torrente dei Balcani (Italian), Радичка, Mавровска пастрмка (Radichka, Mavrovska pastrmka) (Macedonian), Primorska pastrmka (Serbian),Primorska pastrva (Croatian).