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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

New barb discovered in Turkey | Practical Fishkeeping magazine

"New barb discovered in Turkey
A new species of riverine barb from the Capoeta genus has been described from Turkey.

The new tropical freshwater fish is a member of the family Cyprinidae and was described as Capoeta ekmekciae by Davut Turan, Maurice Kottelat, S Gulsun Kirankaya and Semih Engin in a paper in the latest issue of the journal Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters."

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