Marble Trout Pattern In Other Fish

As you may already know one of our research area is studying the molecular background of marble pigment pattern formation in trout.

Marble trout pattern in other fish.

The main focus of our study is marble trout and its spectacular pigmentation but in order to develop hypothesis about general mechanism of pigment pattern formation we are interested also in other fish that display similar marble labyrinthine like patterns. See more ideas about trout fly fishing fish. Feb 6 2015 explore falconsledge1 s board marble trout followed by 222 people on pinterest. Adriatic trout prefer to live in wide and deep rivers.

The easiest way to distinguish between marble trout and marble trout brown trout hybrid is to take a look at gill cover. The marble trout is found in only handful drainages and rivers of the adriatic basin in going from north to south italy slovenia croatia bosnia and herzegovina and montenegro while in albania the species is. If the marking on the gill cover is marbled in pattern then it is probably marble trout despite having an odd red mark on the body. Silvery to olive green in color it is easily recognized by its distinctive brownish red pattern resembling that of marble.

The marble trout is found in rivers of the adriatic basin in the neretva river in bosnia and herzegovina po river in italy zeta river in montenegro soča and idrijca rivers in slovenia and possibly in albania. Other rivers that are also inhabited with marble trout are. These fish are threatened due to excessive damming overfishing and hybridization with other species. These large fish usually grow to about 30 70 cm in length and from 1 to 4 kg in mass with unique specimen weighing up to 6 5 kg.

Marble trout alps and dolomites only salmo trutta marmoratus brown trout salmo trutta fario arctic char salvellinus alpinus grayling tymallus tymallus italic pike esox flaviae and other game and course species. Native in italy since the myst of times. Vipava reka rizana rivers. Marble trout feed mainly on other fish and invertebrates.