Hemigrammocapoeta
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Hemigrammocapoeta is a small ray-finned fish genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Cyprinidae.

Species

It contains the following species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

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  • Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga
    Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga
    Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found in Syria and Turkey.Its natural habitat is rivers.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Crivelli, A.J. 2005. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....

    Pellegrin
    Jacques Pellegrin
    Jacques Pellegrin was a French zoologist.Pellegrin was born in Paris, and studied natural history. In 1894 he became assistant chairman of zoology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, replacing Léon Vaillant .He got his doctorates in medicine and science...

    , 1927
  • Hemigrammocapoeta elegans
    Hemigrammocapoeta elegans
    Hemigrammocapoeta elegans is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae....

    (Günther, 1868)
  • Hemigrammocapoeta kemali
    Hemigrammocapoeta kemali
    Hemigrammocapoeta kemali is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found only in Turkey.Its natural habitats are swamps and freshwater lakes.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...

    (Hankó, 1925)
  • Hemigrammocapoeta nana
    Hemigrammocapoeta nana
    Hemigrammocapoeta nana is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Israel, Jordan, and Syria.Its natural habitats are freshwater rivers, lakes and ponds of the Barada and Jordan River drainage basins, as well as the Kishon River. This bottom-dwelling fish is often...

    (Heckel
    Johann Jakob Heckel
    Johann Jakob Heckel was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim.Though not a formally trained zoologist he worked his way up through the ranks to eventually become the director of the Fish Collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna...

    , 1843)


The mysterious and possibly extinct Saz Baligi
Saz Baligi
The Saz Baligi is an enigmatic and possibly extinct ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. Some list it under its original scientific name Tylognathus klatti, but "Tylognathus" is nowadays recognized as a polyphyletic assemblage of Labeoninae and other cyprinids...

 might also belong in this genus, either as a distinct species, H. klatti, or as a junior synonym of H. kemali.
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