''Barbus cyri'', the Kura barbel, is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish from the

Near East The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...

region. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

''cyri'' is from the Latin for the Kura River in Georgia, which is the type locality. After synonymisation with the

Gokcha barbel The Sevan barbel (''Barbus goktschaicus'') is a species of ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fish ...

, it follows that this species is also found in Lake Sevan.

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cyri Cyprinid fish of Asia Freshwater fish of Europe Fish described in 1865 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Barbus-stub