Acanthobrama tricolor, or the Damascus bream,[1] is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Syria and the Golan Heights, and is recently only known by two specimens found in the Masil al Fawwar river system in the late 1980s. It has been extirpated from the Barada river system, where it has not been seen since 1908. It is considered Critically Endangered, and may possibly be extinct, but no studies of the river systems in the Golan Heights have been conducted, and it may still survive there, but the lower Barada is now dry, and the middle portions of the river are heavily polluted.[1]

Acanthobrama tricolor

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Acanthobrama
Species:
A. tricolor
Binomial name
Acanthobrama tricolor
(Lortet, 1883)
Synonyms

Leuciscus tricolor Lortet, 1883

References

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  1. ^ a b c Freyhof, J. (2014). "Acanthobrama tricolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19017787A19222723. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19017787A19222723.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.