Capoeta banarescui

(Capoeta banarescui)

Description

Capoeta banarescui. the Colchic scraper or Banarescu’s barb, is a species of cyprinid fish known from Turkey. It inhabits swiftly flowing water with cobbles and pebbles bottom. It is only known from northeast Turkey from the Çoruh River system, which drains through Georgia to the Black Sea. It was distinguished from Capoeta tinca (the Anatolian khramulya) as an independent species in 2006.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Genus:Capoeta
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