Telestes

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Telestes Phylum Chordata Order Cypriniformes		Family Cyprinidae Higher classification Cyprinidae Rank Genus

Lower classifications Souffia, Telestes muticellus, Telestes pleurobipunctatus

Telestes pleurobipunctatus and pelasgus thesproticus caught in messonghi river corfu island

Telestes is a genus of cyprinid fish. It was formerly usually included in Leuciscus.

There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:

Telestes beoticus (Stephanidis, 1939)

Telestes croaticus (Steindachner, 1866) (Croatian pijor)

Telestes dabar Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 2012

Telestes fontinalis (M. S. Karaman (sr), 1972) (Spring pijor)

Telestes karsticus Marčić, Buj, Duplić, Ćaleta, Mustafić, Zanella, Zupančič & Mrakovčić, 2011

Telestes metohiensis (Steindachner, 1901)

Telestes miloradi Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 2012

Telestes montenigrinus (Vuković, 1963)

Telestes muticellus (Bonaparte, 1837) (Vairone)

Telestes pleurobipunctatus (Stephanidis, 1939)

Telestes polylepis Steindachner, 1866

Telestes souffia (A. Risso, 1827) (Souffia, Western Vairone)

Telestes turskyi (Heckel, 1843)

†Telestes ukliva (Heckel, 1843)

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