Antakya minnow | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Genus: | Garra |
Species: | G. caudomaculata
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Binomial name | |
Garra caudomaculata (
Battalgil, 1942)
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Synonyms [2] | |
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The Antakya minnow or Orontes golden barb, [1] (Garra caudomaculata) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Garra. There is some confusion regarding the identity of this fish. Formerly thought to be extinct, when occupying the Orontes watershed in Turkey, [3] however a synonym, Hemigrammocapoeta caudomaculata is identified as least concern by the IUCN, [1] and is found in the Asi drainage (Asi is synonymous with Orontes) in Turkey and Syria and Nahr al-Kabir river on the border between Syria and Lebanon, and called the Asi golden barb. [1] They are now considered to be the same species.
Antakya minnow | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Genus: | Garra |
Species: | G. caudomaculata
|
Binomial name | |
Garra caudomaculata (
Battalgil, 1942)
| |
Synonyms [2] | |
|
The Antakya minnow or Orontes golden barb, [1] (Garra caudomaculata) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Garra. There is some confusion regarding the identity of this fish. Formerly thought to be extinct, when occupying the Orontes watershed in Turkey, [3] however a synonym, Hemigrammocapoeta caudomaculata is identified as least concern by the IUCN, [1] and is found in the Asi drainage (Asi is synonymous with Orontes) in Turkey and Syria and Nahr al-Kabir river on the border between Syria and Lebanon, and called the Asi golden barb. [1] They are now considered to be the same species.