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The Danube River and its tributary, the Drava, define the northern limits of the Balkan Peninsula. This peninsula is drained by many rivers flowing in all directions, and has many lakes, the largest being Ohrid, Prespa, Skutari (or Skadar), and Ioannina. The aquatic fauna of the peninsula is not simple, as each river basin, lake or mountain range has its own faunal peculiarities. On the basis of fish distribution, seven geographic regions can be defined, which correspond to river catchments, together with the lakes of Ohrid and Prespa within one of these regions (Figure 1). This contribution deals primarily with the fish, hydrobioid snail and malacostracean elements of marine Tethyan origin.
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Bănărescu, P.M. (2004). Distribution Pattern of the Aquatic Fauna of the Balkan Peninsula. In: Griffiths, H.I., Kryštufek, B., Reed, J.M. (eds) Balkan Biodiversity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2854-0_12
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