Capoeta
Capoeta, also known as scrapers, is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Western Asia. The distribution extends from Turkey to the Levant, to Transcaucasia, Iraq, Turkmenistan, in Armenia, particularly in lake Sevan and northern Afghanistan. This genus is most closely related to Luciobarbus and in itself is divided into three morphologically, biogeographically and genetically distinct groups or clades: the Mesopotamian clade, the Anatolian-Iranian clade and the Aralo-Caspian clade. The Mesopotamian clade was split off to Paracapoeta in 2022.
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:- Capoeta aculeata
- Capoeta alborzensis Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2016
- Capoeta antalyensis
- Capoeta aydinensis Turan, Küçük, Kaya, Güçlü & Bektaş 2017
- Capoeta banarescui Turan, Kottelat, Ekmekçi & İmamoğlu, 2006
- Capoeta bergamae M. S. Karaman, 1969
- Capoeta birunii Zareian & Esmaeili, 2017
- Capoeta buhsei Kessler, 1877
- Capoeta caelestis Schöter, Özuluğ & Freyhof, 2009
- Capoeta capoeta
- Capoeta coadi Alwan, Zareian & Esmaeili, 2016
- Capoeta damascina
- Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017
- Capoeta fusca A. M. Nikolskii, 1897
- Capoeta gracilis
- Capoeta heratensis
- Capoeta kaput Levin, Prokofiev & Roubenyan, 2019
- Capoeta macrolepis
- Capoeta oguzelii Elp, Osmanoğlu, Kadak & Turan 2018
- Capoeta pestai
- Capoeta pyragyi Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017
- Capoeta raghazensis Eagderi & Mousavi-Sabet, 2021
- Capoeta razii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017
- Capoeta saadii
- Capoeta sevangi De Filippi, 1865
- Capoeta shajariani Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017
- Capoeta sieboldii
- Capoeta svanetica Roman, Afanasyev, Golub & Lietytska, 2022
- Capoeta tinca
- ''Capoeta umbla''