Telestes
Encyclopedia
Telestes is a genus
of cyprinid
fish. It was formerly usually included in Leuciscus
. There are currently 12 described species.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of cyprinid
Cyprinid
The family Cyprinidae, from the Ancient Greek kyprînos , consists of the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives . Commonly called the carp family or the minnow family, its members are also known as cyprinids...
fish. It was formerly usually included in Leuciscus
Leuciscus
Leuciscus is a genus of fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae. They are commonly called Eurasian daces; familiar species include the Common Dace and Ide. The genus is widespread form Europe to Siberia....
. There are currently 12 described species.
Species
- Telestes beoticus (Stephanidis, 1939)
- Telestes croaticus (SteindachnerFranz SteindachnerFranz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
, 1866) (Croatian pijor) - Telestes fontinalis (M. S. Karaman, 1972) (Spring pijor)
- Telestes karsticus Marčić, Buj, Duplić, Ćaleta, Mustafić, Zanella, Zupančič & Mrakovčić, 2011
- Telestes metohiensis (SteindachnerFranz SteindachnerFranz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
, 1901) - Telestes montenigrinusTelestes montenigrinusTelestes montenigrinus is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is found in Albania and Serbia and Montenegro.Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent freshwater lakes. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN....
(Vuković, 1963) - Telestes muticellusTelestes muticellusTelestes muticellus is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. Commonly known as Vairone, it is found in France, Italy, and Switzerland....
(BonaparteCharles Lucien BonaparteCharles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist.-Biography:...
, 1837) (Vairone) - Telestes pleurobipunctatus (Stephanidis, 1939)
- Telestes polylepisTelestes polylepisTelestes polylepis is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found only in Croatia.Its natural habitat is rivers.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Crivelli, A.J. 2005. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....
SteindachnerFranz SteindachnerFranz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
, 1866 - Telestes souffia (RissoAntoine RissoGiuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
, 1827) (Souffia, Western Vairone) - Telestes turskyiTelestes turskyiTelestes turskyi is a species of cyprinid restricted to lake Buško Blato in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Čikola River, a tributary of the Krka in Croatia. This species was thought to be extinct, but was found in May 2002 by J. Freyhof and N. Bogutskaya...
(HeckelJohann Jakob HeckelJohann Jakob Heckel was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim.Though not a formally trained zoologist he worked his way up through the ranks to eventually become the director of the Fish Collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna...
, 1843) - †Telestes uklivaTelestes uklivaTelestes ukliva is an extinct species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It was found only in Croatia.Its natural habitat was rivers.It was threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Crivelli, A.J. 2005. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....
(HeckelJohann Jakob HeckelJohann Jakob Heckel was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim.Though not a formally trained zoologist he worked his way up through the ranks to eventually become the director of the Fish Collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna...
, 1843)