Capoeta banarescui

Capoeta banarescui
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Capoeta
Species: C. banarescui
Binomial name
Capoeta banarescui
Turan, Kottelat, Ekmekçi & İmamoğlu, 2006[1]

Capoeta banarescui is a species of cyprinid fish known from Turkey. It inhabits swfitly flowing water with cobbles and pebbles bottom.[1][2]

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.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Capoeta banarescui" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  2. 1 2 Turan, D., Kottelat M., Ekmeci F. G., Imamoglu, H.O. (2006) A review of Capoeta tinca, with descriptions of two new species from Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) Revue Suisse De Zoologie 113, 421-436
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