The yellowfin barbel (''Luciobarbus xanthopterus'') is a species of
cyprinid
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 ...
fish
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the
Tigris-Euphrates River System.
References
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Luciobarbus
Fish of Asia
Fish described in 1843
Taxa named by Johann Jakob Heckel
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