Capoetobrama
Genus of fishes
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Capoetobrama is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae. The only species in the genus is Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi, the sharpray, a species of freshwater fish that is found in Central Asia, in a region shared by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. There are two recognized subspecies.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Capoetobrama L. S. Berg, 1916 |
| Species: | C. kuschakewitschi |
| Binomial name | |
| Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi (Kessler, 1872) | |
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Subspecies
- Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi kuschakewitschi (Kessler, 1872) (Sharpray)
- Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi orientalis A. M. Nikolskii, 1934 (Chu sharpray)
