Telestes

For the king of Corinth with this name, see Bacchiadae.
Telestes
Telestes muticellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
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 14 recognized species in this genus: [1][2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Telestes in FishBase. February 2012 version.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
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