Valencia (genus)

Valenciakärpfling (Valencia hispanica)

Valencia is a genus of Zahnkärpflinge ( Cyprinodontiformes ). The genus is the only one of Valenciidae family. There are three types. The Valenciakärpfling (Valencia hispanica ) lives in Spain in standing and slowly flowing fresh waters along the Mediterranean coast of Gibraltar to the Pyrenees. The type also goes into the brackish water. The second type, Valencia letourneuxi, lives only a few, a few square meters of localities along the coast in the extreme north -western Greece and in the Butrint Lagoon in southern Albania. The populations in Corfu and Lefkas may extinguished. In southern Greece Valencia robertae occurs. The species was described as new in April 2014.

Features

Both species reach a length of eight inches, her body is cylindrical, elongated, with a slightly flattened back. In the dorsal fin they have eight to eleven fin rays, along the lateral line 28 to 34 scales.

Both types are about three years old, feed on small invertebrates, are oviparous and threatened by the introduction of alien fish, the pollution of their home waters as well as the abstraction of water for purposes of irrigation.