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Acanthobrama tricolor

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Actinopterygii

Family
  
Cyprinidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Cypriniformes

Genus
  
Acanthobrama

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Acanthobrama tricolor, or the Damascus bream, is a species of freshwater fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is endemic to Syria and the Golan Heights, and is recently only known 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 has 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.

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