The Amur ide (''Leuciscus waleckii''). also known as Amur chebak
[Alfred F. Majewicz ed. ''Materials for the Study of Tungusic Languages and Folklore'', p. 1100] is a species of freshwater
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
belonging to the
family
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Leuciscidae
Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes, formerly classified as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows.
Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnow ...
. This species is found in the
Amur River
The Amur River () or Heilong River ( zh, s=黑龙江) is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur ''proper'' is ...
basin in Russia, Mongolia, China and Korea. The population found in
Hulun Lake
Hulun Lake (; ; ) or Dalai Lake (; ) is a large lake in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China.
Description
It is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in all of China, covering approximately 2,339 km2. In years with high precipita ...
is capable of tolerating the very high levels of alkalinity in the lake. The
transcriptome
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of the species has been sequenced in order to better understand this tolerance.
References
Amur ide
Amur River
Freshwater fish of Asia
Amur ide
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