Capoeta damascina

Capoeta damascina

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 damascina

Name

Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842 in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1842)

• Lectotype: MNHN 0000-4494.
  • Lectotype designated by Krupp & Schneider, 1989
• Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-3947 (1, dry), 0000-3948 (1, dry), ?A-789 (1).

Type locality: Damascus, Syria.

Etymology: –ina (= belonging to): Damascus, Syria, type locality. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Gobio damascinus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1842
• Scaphiodon fratercula Heckel, 1843
• Scaphiodon peregrinorum Heckel, 1843
• Barbus rajanorum Heckel, 1843 - Hybrid between Barbus pectoralis Heckel, 1843 and Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842) -- Coad, 1991
• Scaphiodon socialis Heckel, 1843
• Chondrostoma syriacum Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1844
• Barbus belayewi Menon, 1960

References

• Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A.; 1842: Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome seizième. Livre dix-huitième. Les Cyprinoïdes. 16: i-xx + 1-472, Pls. 456-487. BHL Reference page. 
• Krupp, F. & Schneider, W. 1989. The fishes of the Jordan River drainage basin and Azraq Oasis. Fauna of Saudia Arabia 10: 347–416.  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 damascina in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Capoeta damascina in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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