Capoeta Pyragyi
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''Capoeta pyragyi'' 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 ...
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 ...
''. It lives in the Tireh and Sezar rivers of Iran, and it is named after Turkmen poet and spiritual leader
Magtymguly Pyragy Magtymguly Pyragy ( ''Makhdumqoli Farāghi''; , ; , born Magtymguly, was an Iranian-Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufism, Sufi and traveller, who is considered the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history. Magtymguly is ...
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pyragyi Fish described in 2017 Taxa named by Ignacio Doadrio Villarejo {{Cyprininae-stub