''Telestes'' is a

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of freshwater ray-finned fishes 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 ...

, which includes the

dace A dace is a small fish that can be one of many different species. The unmodified name is usually a reference to the common dace (''Leuciscus leuciscus''). This, like most fish called "daces", belongs to the family Leuciscidae, mostly in subfami ...

s, Eurasian minnows and related species. Many of the species in this genus were formerly usually included in ''

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''.

Species

These are the currently recognised species in this genus: * ''

Telestes alfiensis ''Telestes'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. Many of the species in this genus were formerly usually included in ''Leuciscus''. Spe ...

'' ( Stephanidis, 1971) * ''

Telestes beoticus ''Telestes'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. Many of the species in this genus were formerly usually included in ''Leuciscus''. Spe ...

'' (Stephanidis, 1939) (Paskóviza) * ''

Telestes comes ''Telestes'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. Many of the species in this genus were formerly usually included in ''Leuciscus''. Spe ...

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, 1838) * ''

Telestes croaticus ''Telestes croaticus'', the Croatian Pijor, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. It is found only in Croatia. Its natural habitats are rive ...

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, 1866) (Croatian pijor) * ''

Telestes dabar ''Telestes dabar'', the Dabarsko dace, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. It is found in Vrijeka and Opacica rivers of eastern Herzegovina ...

'' Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 2012Bogutskaya, 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 ''Telestes fontinalis'', the Spring pijor or Krbava dace, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. It is found only in Croatia. Its natural hab ...

'' ( M. S. Karaman ( sr), 1972) (Spring pijor) * ''

Telestes karsticus ''Telestes karsticus'', the Karst dace, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. It is endemic to Croatia. Its natural habitats are freshwater ...

'' Marčić,

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, Zupančič & Mrakovčić, 2011 (Karst dace) * ''

Telestes metohiensis ''Telestes metohiensis'', the striped dace, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. It is found in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Its natu ...

'' (

, 1901) (Striped dace) * ''

Telestes miloradi ''Telestes'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Phoxinus, Eurasian minnows and related species. Many of the species in this genus were formerly usually incl ...

'' Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 2012 (Konavle dace) * '' Telestes montenigrinus'' (

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, 1963) (Montenegro riffle dace) * ''

Telestes muticellus ''Telestes muticellus'', the Italian riffle dace, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. This species and the Western riffle dace or souffia ('' T. s ...

'' ( Bonaparte, 1837) (Italian riffle dace) * '' Telestes pleurobipunctatus'' (Stephanidis, 1939) (Epiros riffle dace) * '' Telestes polylepis'' Steindachner, 1866 (Croatian dace) * '' Telestes savigny'' Bonaparte, 1840 * ''

Telestes souffia The souffia, Western riffle dace, telestes, vairone or western vairone (''Telestes souffia'') is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This spec ...

'' ( A. Risso, 1827) (Western riffle dace) * ''

Telestes turskyi ''Telestes turskyi'', Tursky's dace, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. This species is endemic to Buško Lake in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the � ...

'' ( Heckel, 1843) (Tursky's dace) * ''

Telestes ukliva ''Telestes ukliva'', the Cetina dace or Ukliva dace, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, whch includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. Endemic to the Cetina river in Croatia and reported as exti ...

'' (Heckel, 1843) (Cetina dace)

References

Leuciscinae Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte {{Leuciscinae-stub