Caspian barbel
"Zardak" redirects here. For the villages in Iran, see Zardak, Iran.
Caspian barbel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Genus: | Luciobarbus |
Species: | L. caspius |
Binomial name | |
Luciobarbus caspius (L. S. Berg, 1914) | |
The Caspian barbel (Luciobarbus caspius) is a species of Cyprinid fish native to the Kura-Aras watershed in the wider Near East. In Persian, it is called zardak (زردک).
Sources
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Luciobarbus caspius" in FishBase. August 2011 version.
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