#2105 · 🐟 fish

Sunbleak

🇳🇱 Vetje ·Leucaspius delineatus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Stepan Markin · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Andrew Bazdyrev · CC BY 4.0
3. © Yurij Ivancea · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Анатолий Кузьмин · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Kutushev Radik · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Ilja Fescenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 1384 EA Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 8389 TA Zandhuizen, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Olst, Nederland:© Berend Bouman · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Ballum, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Leucaspius delineatus , known as the sunbleak , belica or moderlieschen is a species of freshwater fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is currently the only species included in genus Leucaspius , whereas formerly others were included, which now have been moved to Ladigesocypris or Pseudophoxinus or merged with L. delineatus .

base stats

NL sightings 36iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 905iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 36 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #34 most seen of the fish in NL.
905 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Jakob Heckel in 1843 (183 years ago).