Lortet’s barbel (Barbus lorteti) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is only found in the lower course of Orontes River in Syria and Turkey.[1] , the main lower cases of the river were poisoned and nearly dried in 1989 and changed the lake from being abundant to completely fishless. Aside from being extinct in Lake Amik, nothing else is known about the fish.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Barbinae |
| Genus: | Barbus |
| Species: | B. lorteti
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| Binomial name | |
| Barbus lorteti Sauvage, 1882
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Although the patronym is not identified, probably in honor of Louis Charles Émile Lortet (1836-1909).[2]
References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Barbus lorteti" in FishBase. February 2016 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamilies ACROSSOCHEILINAE, BARBINAE, SPINIBARBINAE, SCHIZOTHORACINAE, SCHIZOPYGOPSINAE and Incertae sedis". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- Crivelli, A.J. (2018). "Luciobarbus lorteti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T61367A136078059. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T61367A136078059.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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