Capoeta barroisi, also known as the Orontes scraper or Tigris barb, is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish from the Near East. This species is up to 20 cm long an has sides with brownish spots irregularly arranged in the upper half of the body.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyprininae |
| Genus: | Capoeta |
| Species: | C. barroisi
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| Capoeta barroisi | |
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Barbus barroisi (Lortet, 1894) | |
Its distribution was previously thought to comprise the Tigris-Euphrates basin and extend to Iran. More recently, this species is thought to be restricted to a small region of the Orontes River basin in Turkey and Syria, and it is now considered endangered.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Capoeta barroisi" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- ^ Freyhof J (2014) Capoeta barroisi IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014
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