''Paracapoeta erhani'', also known as the Ceyhan scraper or Seyhan scraper, is a Turkish species of freshwater
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 ...
fish in the genus ''
Paracapoeta''.
It lives in the drainage basins of the
Ceyhan
Ceyhan () is a city and a district in the Adana Province, in southern Turkey, east of Adana. With a population of over 157,000, it is the largest district of the province, outside the city of Adana. Ceyhan is the transportation hub for Middle Ea ...
and
Seyhan River
The Seyhan River (formerly written ''Seihan'', ''Sihun''; ancient name: grc, Σάρος, ''Sáros''), alternatively known as ''Sarus'' (or in Turkish as ''Sarus Su''),John Garstang and O.R. Gurney is the longest river of Cilicia and the long ...
s, in many kinds of streams and also in reservoirs. These waters are in a relatively good ecological shape, and the species is therefore considered to be safe (
least concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. Th ...
).
[ The Seyhan population, formerly classified as ''Capoeta turani'' was classified as ]Near Threatened
A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify fo ...
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References
Cyprinidae
Endemic fauna of Turkey
Fish of Turkey
Taxa named by Davut Turan
Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat
Taxa named by Fitnat Güler Ekmekçi
Fish described in 2008
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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