Capoeta

Capoeta, also known as scrapers, is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Western Asia. The distribution extends from Turkey to the Levant, to Transcaucasia, Iraq, Turkmenistan, in Armenia, particularly in lake Sevan and northern Afghanistan. This genus is most closely related to Luciobarbus and in itself is divided into three morphologically, biogeographically and genetically distinct groups or clades: the Mesopotamian clade, the Anatolian-Iranian clade and the Aralo-Caspian clade. The Mesopotamian clade was split off to Paracapoeta in 2022.

Species
There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus:
 * Capoeta aculeata (Valenciennes, 1844)
 * Capoeta alborzensis Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2016
 * Capoeta angorae (Hankó (hu), 1925) (Ankara barb)
 * Capoeta antalyensis (Battalgil, 1944) (Pamphylian scraper, Antalya barb)
 * Capoeta baliki Turan, Kottelat, Ekmekçi & İmamoğlu, 2006 (fourbarbel scraper, Sakarya barb)
 * Capoeta banarescui Turan, Kottelat, Ekmekçi & İmamoğlu, 2006 (Colchic scraper, Banarescu's barb)
 * Capoeta bergamae M. S. Karaman (sr), 1969 (Aegean scraper)
 * Capoeta buhsei Kessler, 1877 (Namak scraper)
 * Capoeta caelestis Schöter, Özuluğ & Freyhof, 2009 (Taurus scraper)
 * Capoeta capoetoides Pellegrin, 1938
 * Capoeta capoeta (Güldenstädt, 1773) (Caucasian scraper)
 * Capoeta coadi Alwan, Zareian & Esmaeili, 2016
 * Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842) (Levantine scraper, Mesopotamian barb)
 * Capoeta ekmekciae Turan, Kottelat, Kırankaya & Engin, 2006 (Grusinian scraper)
 * Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017
 * Capoeta fusca A. M. Nikolskii, 1897
 * Capoeta gracilis (Keyserling, 1861)
 * Capoeta kaput Levin, Prokofiev & Roubenyan 2019
 * Capoeta kosswigi M. S. Karaman (sr), 1969 (Van scraper, Van barb)
 * Capoeta mauricii Küçük, Turan, Şahin & Gülle, 2009 (longsnout scraper)
 * Capoeta pestai (Pietschmann, 1933) (Eğirdir longsnout scraper, Eğirdir barb)
 * Capoeta pyragyi Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017
 * Capoeta razii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017
 * Capoeta saadii (Heckel, 1847)
 * Capoeta sevangi De Filippi, 1865
 * Capoeta shajariani Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017
 * Capoeta sieboldii (Steindachner, 1864) (nipple-lip scraper)
 * Capoeta tinca (Heckel, 1843) (western fourbarbel scraper, Anatolian khramulya)
 * Capoeta umbla (Heckel, 1843) (Tigris scraper)