The yellowfin barbel (''Luciobarbus xanthopterus'') is a species of
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
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the
Tigris-Euphrates River System.
References
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Luciobarbus
Fish of Asia
Fish described in 1843
Taxa named by Johann Jakob Heckel
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