Fish of the Salmo genus of the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family of the Salmoniformes order of the Protacanthopterygii superorder.
(Prespa trout. Photo by © Johannes Schöffmann. fishbase.org)
Prespa trout (Salmo peristericus) was first described in 1938 by the Macedonian biologist Stanko L. Karaman (1889 – 1959). It’s the inhabitant of small fast-flowing rivers and oxygenated water. The recorded maximum length is 35 cm.
(Prespa trout. Photo by © M. Kottelat, J. Freyhof. ittiofauna.org)
It’s the endemic of tributaries of Lake Prespa (Albania, Greece, Macedonia).
It is listed in IUCN Red List as an endangered species (EN).
Names of Prespa trout (Salmo peristericus) in other languages are as follows:
Trofta greke (Albanian), Πέστροφα Πρέσπας (Pestrofa Prespas) (Greek), Trota di torrente di Prespa (Italian), Перистерска пастрмка (Peristerska pastrmka) (Macedonian).