''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
''Capoeta tinca'', or the Anatolian khramulya or western fourbarbel scraper, is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Turkey, inhabiting swiftly flowing rivers.
It is known from rivers draining north to the Sea of Marmara. Earlier ''Capoeta ...
'' (the Anatolian khramulya) as an independent species in 2006.[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
References
banarescui
Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat
Fish described in 2006
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