Fish of the Salmo genus of the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family of the Salmoniformes order of the Protacanthopterygii superorder.
(Montenegro trout. Photo by © M. Kottelat, J. Freyhof. ittiofauna.org)
Montenegro trout (Salmo montenigrinus) was first described in 1933 by the Macedonian biologist Stanko L. Karaman (1889 – 1959). It inhabits fast-flowing oxygenated parts of rivers. It often swims close to small waterfalls. The recorded maximum length is 26 cm. It feeds on zooplankton and insects.
It’s the endemic of the Morača River basin (Montenegro) and the Neretva River basin, in its upper reaches (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Names of Montenegro trout (Salmo montenigrinus) in other languages are as follows:
Trota del Montenegro (Italian), Trucha de Montenegro (Spanish), Južno balkanska pastrmka (Serbian), Južno balkanska pastrva (Croatian).