Cyprinidae

Syrian bream

Acanthobrama tricolor

Known from only two specimens of the late eighties

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• West Asia
• Small
• Tropical fish

Acanthobrama tricolor, or the Damascus bream, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Leuciscidae. It is endemic to Syria and the Golan Heights, and is recently only known by two specimens found in the Masil al Fawwar river system in the late 1980s. It has been extirpated from the Barada river system, where it has not been seen since 1908.