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Cyprinidae
Mesopotamian barbel
Luciobarbus subquincunciatus
Critically Endangered Carp of Asian Waters
- Tropical
- Local endemic species
- Restricted distribution
- Freshwater fish
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Restricted distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
LargeMesopotamian barbel is known from Asia as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Luciobarbus
- Maximum length
- 60 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Asia: endemic to the Tigris-Euphrates basin of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
Class
Family
Conservation status
