''Telestes'' is a
genus
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of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the
family
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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 ...
, which includes the
daces,
Eurasian minnows and related species. Many of the species in this genus were formerly usually included in ''
Leuciscus
''Leuciscus'' is a genus of freshwater and brackish water ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. They are inland water fishes commonly called Eurasian daces. Th ...
''.
Species
These are the currently recognised species in this genus:
* ''
Telestes alfiensis''
( Stephanidis, 1971)
* ''
Telestes beoticus''
(Stephanidis, 1939) (Paskóviza)
* ''
Telestes comes''
( Costa, 1838)
* ''
Telestes croaticus''
( Steindachner, 1866) (Croatian pijor)
* ''
Telestes dabar''
Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 2012[Bogutskaya, N.G., Zupancic, P., Bogut, I. & Naseka, A.M. (2012): Two new freshwater fish species of the genus Telestes (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from karst poljes in Eastern Herzegovina and Dubrovnik littoral (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia). ''ZooKeys, 180: 53–80.''] (Dabarsko dace)
* ''
Telestes fontinalis''
( M. S. Karaman ( sr), 1972) (Spring pijor)
* ''
Telestes karsticus''
Marčić, Buj, Duplić, Ćaleta, Mustafić, Zanella, Zupančič & Mrakovčić, 2011 (Karst dace)
* ''
Telestes metohiensis''
( Steindachner, 1901) (Striped dace)
* ''
Telestes miloradi''
Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 2012[ (Konavle dace)
* '' Telestes montenigrinus'' (]Vuković
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, 1963) (Montenegro riffle dace)
* '' Telestes muticellus'' ( Bonaparte, 1837) (Italian riffle dace)
* '' Telestes pleurobipunctatus'' (Stephanidis, 1939) (Epiros riffle dace)
* '' Telestes polylepis'' Steindachner, 1866 (Croatian dace)
* '' Telestes savigny'' Bonaparte, 1840
* '' Telestes souffia'' ( A. Risso, 1827) (Western riffle dace)
* '' Telestes turskyi'' ( Heckel, 1843) (Tursky's dace)
* '' Telestes ukliva'' (Heckel, 1843) (Cetina dace)
References
Leuciscinae
Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
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