Lortet’s barbel

Lortet’s barbel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Subfamily:Barbinae
Genus:Barbus
Species: B. lorteti
Binomial name
Barbus lorteti
Sauvage, 1882

Lortet’s barbel (Barbus lorteti) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is only found in the lower course of Orontes River in Syria and Turkey.[1] , the main lower cases of the river were poisoned and nearly dried in 1989 and changed the lake from being abundant to completely fishless. Aside from being extinct in Lake Amik, nothing else is known about the fish.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Barbus lorteti" in FishBase. February 2016 version.


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