Capoeta pestai, called the Eğirdir longsnout scraper or the Eğirdir barb, is a critically endangered freshwater fish species in the family Cyprinidae, found only in Turkey. It used to be common across Lake Eğirdir in central Anatolia, but survives only in one of the inflowing rivers. It was forced out of Lake Eğirdir by a combination of overfishing, irrigation, destruction of its habitat, and the induction of predatory alien fish species.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyprininae |
| Genus: | Capoeta |
| Species: | C. pestai
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| Binomial name | |
| Capoeta pestai (Pietschmann, 1933)
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| Synonyms | |
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Varicorhinus pestai Pietschmann, 1933 | |
References
edit- ^ Freyhof, J. (2014). "Capoeta pestai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T3785A19006339. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T3785A19006339.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Capoeta pestai". FishBase. May 2014 version.
- Özcan, Gülnaz; Turan, Cemal (2009). "Threatened fishes of the world: Capoeta pestai (Pietschmann, 1933) (Cyprinidae)". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 84 (4): 359–360. doi:10.1007/s10641-008-9426-7. S2CID 31233726.
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