Biology:Telestes

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Telestes
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Telestes muticellus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Telestes
Bonaparte, 1837
Type species
Telestes muticellus
(Bonaparte, 1837)
Species

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Telestes is a genus of cyprinid fish. It was formerly usually included in Leuciscus.

Species

There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:[1]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Telestes in FishBase. January 2024 version.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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.

Wikidata ☰ Q2750790 entry