Capoeta

Capoeta, also known as scrapers, is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Western Asia. The distribution extends from Turkey to the Levant, to Transcaucasia, Iraq, Turkmenistan, in Armenia, particularly in lake Sevan and northern Afghanistan. This genus is most closely related to Luciobarbus and in itself is divided into three morphologically, biogeographically and genetically distinct groups or clades: the Mesopotamian clade, the Anatolian-Iranian clade and the Aralo-Caspian clade. The Mesopotamian clade was split off to Paracapoeta in 2022.

==Species== These are the currently recognized species in this genus: Capoeta aculeata (Valenciennes, 1844) Capoeta alborzensis Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2016 Capoeta antalyensis (Hankó (hu), 1925) Capoeta aydinensis Turan, Küçük, Kaya, Güçlü & Bektaş 2017 Capoeta banarescui Turan, Kottelat, Ekmekçi & İmamoğlu, 2006 Capoeta bergamae M. S. Karaman (sr), 1969 (Aegean scraper) Capoeta birunii Zareian & Esmaeili, 2017 Capoeta buhsei Kessler, 1877 (Namak scraper) Capoeta caelestis Schöter, Özuluğ & Freyhof, 2009 (Taurus scraper) Capoeta capoeta (Güldenstädt, 1773) (Caucasian scraper) Capoeta coadi Alwan, Zareian & Esmaeili, 2016 Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842) (Levantine scraper, Mesopotamian barb) Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017 Capoeta fusca A. M. Nikolskii, 1897 Capoeta gracilis (Keyserling, 1861) Capoeta heratensis (Keyserling, 1861) Capoeta kaput Levin, Prokofiev & Roubenyan, 2019 Capoeta macrolepis (Heckel 1847) Capoeta oguzelii Elp, Osmanoğlu, Kadak & Turan 2018 Capoeta pestai (Pietschmann, 1933) (Eğirdir longsnout scraper, Eğirdir barb) Capoeta pyragyi Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017 Capoeta raghazensis Eagderi & Mousavi-Sabet, 2021 Capoeta razii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017 Capoeta saadii (Heckel, 1847) Capoeta sevangi De Filippi, 1865 Capoeta shajariani Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017 Capoeta sieboldii (Steindachner, 1864) (nipple-lip scraper) Capoeta svanetica Roman, Afanasyev, Golub & Lietytska, 2022 Capoeta tinca (Heckel, 1843) (western fourbarbel scraper, Anatolian khramulya) Capoeta umbla (Heckel, 1843) (Tigris scraper)