The Kura nase (''Chondrostoma cyri''), or southern Caspian nase, is a species 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 ...

. This species occurs in the drainage systems of Kura and Aras rivers in Armenia, Georgia, Iran and Turkey.

References

* Chondrostoma Fish described in 1877 Taxa named by Karl Kessler {{Leuciscinae-stub