Cyprinidae

Kais kingfish

Cyprinion kais

Fifteen Point Nine Centimeters Carp of Asian Waters

• Tropical
• Local endemic species
• Restricted distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Asia (unspecified)
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Cyprinion kais, the Kais kingfish or smallmouth lotak, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyprinion. It is found in the drainage basins of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, and was also found in the Queiq system but it appears to have been extirpated from that basin following the drying up of that river. Its range covers Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.