Recenti novità tassonomiche riguardanti i pesci d’acqua dolce autoctoni in Italia e descrizione di una nuova specie di luccio

About 15 native species, before considered by the official Italian ichthylogical literature, as conspecific with transalpinian species, are in fact endemics. Especially the failure of taxonomic updates bring in Italy several alien species either introduced as official stockings or mixed as impurity. Among the rehabilitated species there are, among cyprinids, Scardinius hesperidicus and S. scardafa, Telestes savigny from northern and T. comes from southern Italy, Squalius ruffoi from southern Italy. Squalius albus is a junior synonym of S. squalus. The endemic gudgeon, assigned at genus Romanogobio is placed again into the genus Gobio (G. benacensis). Phoxinus lumaireul is a junior synonym of P.phoxinus. Among Salmonidae, Salmo cenerinus is junior synonym of S. marmoratus while Salmo farioides represents the trout species of the Adriatic lineage. The esocid Esox cisalpinius n.sp. is regarded as an endemic species of pike in Italy. Among sculpins, Cottus scaturigo and C. ferrugineus are regarded as junior synonyms of C. gobio. Actually in Italy there are 51 native established freshwater fish species 2 of which extinguished (Acipenser sturio and Huso huso).