Alburnus sarmaticus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Alburnus sarmaticus (ZM NASU 4145) 01.jpg

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref={{cite iucn |author=Freyhof, J. |year=2024 |title=Alburnus sarmaticus |page=e.T135590A135067907 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T135590A135067907.en}}

| genus = Alburnus

| species = sarmaticus

| authority=Freyhof & Kottelat, 2007{{FishBase| genus = Alburnus | species = sarmaticus | id = 64201 | date= June 2012}}

}}

Alburnus sarmaticus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alburnus. Widespread in European rivers: Southern Bug, Dnieper, Danube (in Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria); River Kolpa, an upper tributary to the River Sava in Croatia and Slovenia.{{cite journal|author=Freyhof, J. |author2= M. Kottelat|year= 2007|title= Review of the Alburnus mento species group with description of two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)|journal= Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. |volume=18|issue=3|pages=213–225}} Almost extirpated in Danube, to be probably survived only in River Kolpa.{{cite book|author=Kottelat, M. |author2= J. Freyhof|year= 2007|title= Handbook of European freshwater fishes|publisher= Publications Kottelat |location=Cornol, Switzerland}}