''Capoetobrama'' is a

monospecific genus In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...

of freshwater

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

belonging to the

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Leuciscidae Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes, formerly classified as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnow ...

. The only species in the genus is ''Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi'', the sharpray, a species of freshwater fish that is found in

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, in a region shared by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. There are two recognized subspecies.

Subspecies

* '' Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi kuschakewitschi'' ( Kessler, 1872) (Sharpray) * '' Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi orientalis'' A. M. Nikolskii, 1934 (Chu sharpray)

References

Taxa named by Lev Berg Taxa named by Karl Kessler Fish described in 1872 Monotypic cyprinid fish genera Leuciscinae {{Leuciscinae-stub