Acanthobrama tricolor (Lortet, 1883)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
Acanthobrama tricolor, or the Damascus bream, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Leuciscidae. It is endemic to Syria and the Golan Heights, and is recently only known by two specimens found in the Masil al Fawwar river system in the late 1980s. It has been extirpated from the Barada river system, where it has not been seen since 1908. It is considered Critically Endangered, and may possibly be extinct, but no studies of the river systems in the Golan Heights have been conducted, and it may still survive there, but the lower Barada is now dry, and the middle portions of the river are heavily polluted.
Wikipedia contributors, Acanthobrama tricolor; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T18:55:53.847027+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Acanthobrama tricolor (Lortet, 1883)
- Name authority
- (Lortet, 1883)
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Acanthobrama
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderCypriniformes
- familyCyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815
- subfamilyLeuciscinae Bonaparte, 1835
- genusAcanthobrama Heckel, 1843
- speciesAcanthobrama tricolor (Lortet, 1883)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Acanthobrama. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Acanthobrama microlepis (De Filippi, 1863) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama hadiyahensis Coad, Alkahem & Behnke, 1983 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama persidis (Coad, 1981) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama marmid Heckel, 1843 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama thisbeae Freyhof & Özulug, 2014 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama telavivensis Goren, Fishelson & Trewavas, 1973 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama orontis Berg, 1949 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama centisquama Heckel, 1843 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama lissneri Tortonese, 1952 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthobrama urmianus (Günther, 1899) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Leuciscus tricolor Lortet, 1883 Lortet, 1883 | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=238078 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:64CT5. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.