Biology and taxonomy of three endemic fish species from the lower Neretva river

Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia are known for presence of numerous endemic species and subspecies of fish, associated with two major river basins, the Danube and the Adriatic. Rivers of the Adriatic basin are significantly short and isolated, compared with the rivers of the Danube basin. Thus, a certain number of insufficiently described endemic species exist in the Lower Neretv…