Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842)
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
Capoeta damascina, the Levantine scraper or Mesopotamian barb, is a species of cyprinid fish from the Near East region. It is reported from Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Turkey.
It is a bottom feeding fish, up to 50 cm (1.6 ft) long but typically about 30 cm (1 ft), and it lives in lakes as well as both fast and slow-moving streams, and both in clear and muddy waters. It is said to have tasteless flesh and toxic eggs. It has been recorded hybridising with Carasobarbus canis but these hybrids are sterile.
Wikipedia contributors, Capoeta damascina; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T19:14:33.363584+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842)
- Name authority
- (Valenciennes, 1842)
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Capoeta
- 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
- genusCapoeta Valenciennes, 1842
- speciesCapoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Capoeta. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Capoeta fusca Nikolskii, 1897 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta caelestis Schöter, Özuluğ & Freyhof, 2009 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta barroisi Lortet, 1894 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta capoetoides (Pellegrin, 1938) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta kaput Levin, Prokofiev & Roubenyan, 2019 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta aculeata (Valenciennes, 1844) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta kosswigi Karaman, 1969 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta mandica Bianco & Bănărescu, 1982 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta pestai (Pietschmann, 1933) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta razii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capoeta saadii (Heckel, 1847) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
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=862540 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:699M3. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.