Fish Database

Telestes montenigrinus

(eng.), (ger.),

Distribution and Habitat -

  • IUCN-Redlist Least Concern
  • EUR-HAB-DIR III
  • Bern Convention II
  • Hydropower Sensitivity Moderate to High
  • Balkan Dam Threat * High

* The assessment of Balkan Dam Threat is based on the loss of habitat that would occur if all or most of the planned hydropower schemes in the distribution range of the species were to be built. For more precise specification see Fish Study, page 8.