Heckel’s Orontes barbel or Levantine barbel (Luciobarbus pectoralis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Luciobarbus from the Orontes River basin (including Asi Nehri) in the Near East.
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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: | Luciobarbus |
| Species: | L. pectoralis
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| Binomial name | |
| Luciobarbus pectoralis (Heckel, 1843)
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| Synonyms | |
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Barbus pectoralis Heckel, 1843 | |
References edit
- ^ Freyhof, J. (2014). "Luciobarbus pectoralis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19383495A19848388. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19383495A19848388.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Luciobarbus pectoralis" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
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