spined loach

In addition the stream is a habitat for the rare Spined loach.

The spined loach is often kept as an ornamental fish in aquaria.

This stop-gap measure sustains the spined loach when the water around it is oxygen-poor.

The spined loach typically reaches an adult length of 8-10 cm, although females may grow up to 12 cm.

Clear oxygen-rich water is preferred by the spined loach, be it slowly flowing brooks, rivers or still water.

This fish was long believed to be part of the widespread Spined Loach (C. taenia).

Additionally, there a range of introduced species such as Lake trout, Char, Salmon, and Spined loach.

The spined loach (Cobitis taenia) is a common freshwater fish in Europe and Asia.

Cobitis taenia (Spined Loach)

Sabanejewia balcanica (Spined Loach)

Spined loach was discovered in 2002 and occasionally Salmon and Brown trout find their way into the lake, the later introduced in a local brook in 1992-93.

Sabanejewia aurata aralensis (Aral Spined Loach)

It contains the typical spiny loaches, including the well-known Spined Loach (C. taenia) of temperate western Eurasia.

The River Mease which joins the River Trent at the eastern extent of the site is a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to its populations of otters, native white-clawed crayfish and spined loach.

The alternate name weather loach is shared with several other Cobitidae, including the other members of the genus Misgurnus and the spotted weather loach (Cobitis taenia, commonly known as Spined Loach).

There are only fourteen fish species, including some native species: Souffia, South-West European Nase and large populations of Zingel asper and Spined loach which are both endangered species of fish.

Fish types include roaches, some gobies, Crucian carps, sabre carp, perch, ruffe, pike, Common dace, silver bream, ide, gudgeon, carp bream, spined loach, European smelt, char, pike-perch, rudd and burbot.

A member of subgenus Cobitis, close relatives of the spined loach are C. elongatoides, C. fahirae, C. tanaitica or C. vardarensis which replace it in northern Greece, much of Romania, and western Turkey.

Or it might indeed refer to the fish: the Spined Loach (Cobitis taenia), native to England, is very prolific, and the phrase can be taken to imply "...hosts fleas as abundantly as the Spiny Loach spawns".

Natural England's report in February 2010 reported that the river's two special fish (spined loach and European bullhead) were both being adversely affected by pollution: both in terms of having lower than expected population sizes, and the river failing to provide favourable conditions for them to live.

The lake is the richest in fish species in Sweden, including pike, salmon, burbot, vendace, bream, ide, ruffe, minnow, rudd, and spined loach, rare for this area, which has prompted biodiversity conservation efforts and attention from among others EU Natura 2000.