''Capoeta buhsei'', the Namak scraper, is a species of

cyprinid Cyprinidae is a Family (biology), family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barb (fish), barbs and barbel (fish), barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the ...

fish from the Lake Namak basin,

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. It is usually less than 10 cm long.

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buhsei Fish described in 1877 {{Cyprininae-stub