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CategoryRivers and lakes

When starting an article about Lake Ohrid, one can’t help but use such commonplace and even screaming epithets as the “the jewel of the Balkan Peninsula” and so on. Lake Ohrid (Ohridsko Jezero – Macedonian name, Liqeni i Ohrit – Albanian name) is the deepest lake of the Balkan Peninsula…

Many fishermen think that representatives of the Salmonidae family are the only fish that inhabit seas, lakes and rivers. They are sure that there is nothing more there, except for the ichthyofauna. Fish is salmon, that’s it. Some people can be touched, when they hear this approach, others ridicule or…

Chondrostei, the subclass of Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes), has already existed on the planet since the Paleozoic Era, so its modern representatives can be considered living dinosaurs for sure. (Penny Postcard: Columbia River Sturgeon, ca.1910. columbiariverimages.com) Representatives of Chondrostei existing nowadays can be up to 4.2 meters long (and according to…

Salmonidae is the only family that belongs to the Salmoniformes order, which, according to one of the classifications, belongs to the Protacanthopterygii superorder, also comprising the following orders: Argentiniformes (representatives inhabit the Adriatic Sea), Esociformes (representatives inhabit the fresh waters of the Balkan and Apennine Peninsulas), and Osmeriformes (inhabitants of…