''Alburnus caeruleus'', also known as the black spotted bleak or Tigris bleak is a species of
ray-finned fish in the carp family,
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...
. It is found in the
Queiq River drainage and the
Tigris–Euphrates river system in
Iran,
Iraq,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
and
Turkey.
References
caeruleus
Fish described in 1843
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