A comparative analysis was performed on sixteen morphometric characters, in three different juvenile sterlet Acipenser ruthenus L. populations. Specimens were collected from a wild population in the Serbian part of the Danube River ( n = 46), from aquaculture stocks in the Czech Republic originating from Russia ( n = 40), and aquaculture stocks in the Slovak Republic originating from Slovakian part of the Danube River ( n = 28...

The first record of Pseudorasbora parva in the Balkan region was in 1977 in Sasko Lake, Montenegro and in 1978 it was found in Serbia. Since then, this species has spread to almost all lowland rivers and has become a permanent member of the ichthyofauna in Serbia and Montenegro.

Four species of sturgeons appear in the Yugoslav part of the Danube River. Among them three are anadromous, beluga ( Huso huso ), Russian sturgeon ( Acipenser gueldenstaedtii ) and stellate sturgeon ( Acipenser stellatus ) and migrate to Danube from the Black Sea to spawn. Only sterlet ( Acipenser ruthenus ) is exclusively freshwater. There are obvious differences between vernal and winter races of anadromous sturgeons, due to...

Significant differences (ANOVA) in three out of six meristic characters and in 16 out of 18 morphometric characters were found among Syngnathus abaster caught in the River Danube at sites 900 km upwards from the mouth of the Black Sea, the fresh waters of Ukraine, the Black Sea and the Azov Sea. The Danube populations showed significantly greater values for antedorsal (aD) and anteanal (aA) distances, but considerably smaller...