''Paracapoeta erhani'', also known as the Ceyhan scraper or Seyhan scraper, is a Turkish species of freshwater

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 in the genus ''

Paracapoeta ''Paracapoeta'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Mesopotamia, Cilicia and the Levant, Western Asia. This genus is closely related to ''Luciobarbus'' and was formerly the Mesopotamian clade of ''Capoeta'' before being split of ...

''. It lives in the drainage basins of the

Ceyhan Ceyhan () is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,426 km2, and its population is 158,922 (2022). It is the most populous district of the province, outside the city of Adana. Ceyhan is the transportation hub for ...

and

Seyhan River The Seyhan River (formerly written ''Seihan'', ''Sihun''; ancient name: , ''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 longest of Turkey t ...

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 evaluated and categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wil ...

). The Seyhan population, formerly classified as ''Capoeta turani'' was classified as

Near Threatened A near-threatened species is a species which has been Conservation status, categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to Endangered species, endangerment in the ne ...

before being synonymised, which happened in the same paper that erected ''Paracapoeta'' in 2022.

References

erhani 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 {{Cyprininae-stub