Capoeta caelestis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Cyprininae
Tribus: Barbini
Genus: Capoeta
Species: Capoeta caelestis

Name

Capoeta caelestis Schöter et al., 2009

• Holotype: IUSHM 37930-252.
• Paratypes: IUSHM 37930-247 (24); FSJF 2304 (22).

Type locality: Göksu River at Göksu, below Göksu power station, approximately 80 kilometers northwest of Silifki, 37°02.74'N, 32°44.56'E, Karaman Province, Turkey.

Etymology: From Latin caelestis (= from the sky, heavenly), named after Göksu River, type locality (Turkish: gök (= heavenly); su (= water). From The ETYFish project)

References

• Schöter, C., Özuluğ, M. & Freyhof, J. 2009. Capoeta caelestis, a new species from Göksu River, Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 20(3): 229-236.Reference page. 
• Zareian, H., Esmaeili, H.R., Heidari, A., Khoshkholgh, M. & Mousavi-Sabet, H. 2016. Contribution to the molecular systematics of the genus Capoeta from the south Caspian Sea basin using mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Molecular Biology Research Communications 5(2): 65–75. PDF.Reference page. 

Links

• Capoeta caelestis in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Capoeta caelestis in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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