''Capoeta ferdowsii'' is a species of

cyprinid Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest ve ...

in the genus ''

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 ...

'', native the

Zohreh Zohreh (Persian: زهره, Arabic:الزهرة) is a Persian female given name which means "Venus". People * Zohreh Akhyani * Zohreh Jooya * Zohreh Lajevardi * Zohreh Mojabi * Zohreh Sefati * Zohreh Tabibzadeh-Nouri See also * Zohreh, a proposed s ...

and Fahlian rivers in Iran. It is named after Persian poet Ferdowsi.

References

ferdowsii Fish described in 2017 Taxa named by Ignacio Doadrio Villarejo {{Cyprininae-stub