''Capoeta tinca'', or the Anatolian khramulya or western fourbarbel 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 endemic to

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, inhabiting swiftly flowing rivers. It is known from rivers draining north to the

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. Earlier ''Capoeta tinca'' was thought to be more widespread across Turkey and

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, but in 2006 it was divided into three distinct species, '' Capoeta baliki, Capoeta banarescui'' and ''Capoeta tinca''.Turan, D., Kottelat M., Ekmeci F. G., Imamoglu, H.O. (2006
A review of Capoeta tinca, with descriptions of two new species from Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
''Revue Suisse De Zoologie'' 113, 421-436

References

Tinca Tinca () is a commune in the south-central part of Bihor County, Crișana, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Belfir (), Gurbediu (), Girișu Negru (), Râpa (), and Tinca. Historic attestation It was first mentioned as a village in a Pap ...

Endemic fauna of Turkey Taxa named by Johann Jakob Heckel Fish described in 1843 {{Cyprininae-stub