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Zeta trout (Salmo taleri)

Fish of the Salmo genus of the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family of the Salmoniformes order of the Protacanthopterygii superorder.

(Zeta trout. Photo by © M. Kottelat, J. Freyhof. ittiofauna.org)

Zeta trout (Salmo taleri) was first described in 1933 by the Macedonian biologist Stanko L. Karaman (1889 – 1959). The recorded maximum length is 30 cm. It feeds mainly on invertebrates and insects.

It’s a rare inhabitant of the upper reaches of the Zeta, the Morača and their tributaries (Montenegro).

Names of Zeta trout (Salmo taleri) in other languages are as follows:

Trota del fiume Zeta (итальянский).