Capoeta ekmekciae

Capoeta ekmekciae, the Grusinian scraper is a kind of freshwater cyprinid fish from Turkey. It is known exclusively from the Çoruh River.[2] It was described as a separate species in 2006.[3]

Capoeta ekmekciae

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Cyprininae
Genus: Capoeta
Species:
C. ekmekciae
Binomial name
Capoeta ekmekciae
Turan, Kottelat, Kirankaya & Engin, 2006[2]

References

  1. Freyhof, J. (2014). "Capoeta ekmekciae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T19025623A19222868. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T19025623A19222868.en. Downloaded on 16 December 2017.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Capoeta ekmekciae" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  3. Turan, D., M. Kottelat, S.G. Kirankaya and S. Engin, 2006. Capoeta ekmekciae, a new species of cyprinid fish from northeastern Anatolia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 17(2):147-156.


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