capoeta

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Capoeta buhsei, photographed at Jajurud River, Namak basin.jpg

| image_caption = Capoeta buhsei

| taxon = Capoeta

| authority = Valenciennes, 1842

| type_species = Cyprinus capoeta

| type_species_authority = Güldenstädt, 1773

| synonyms = Scaphiodon Heckel, 1843

}}

Capoeta, also known as scrapers, is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Western Asia. The distribution extends from Turkey to the Levant, to Transcaucasia, Iraq, Turkmenistan, in Armenia, particularly in lake Sevan and northern Afghanistan.{{Cite journal|last1=Levin|first1=Boris A.|last2=Freyhof|first2=Jörg|last3=Lajbner|first3=Zdeněk|last4=Perea|first4=Silvia|last5=Abdoli|first5=Asghar|last6=Gaffaroğlu|first6=Muhammet|last7=Özuluğ|first7=Müfit|last8=Rubenyan|first8=Haikaz R.|last9=Salnikov|first9=Vladimir B.|date=January 2012|title=Phylogenetic relationships of the algae scraping cyprinid genus Capoeta (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=62|issue=1|pages=542–549|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.004|pmid=21967785|bibcode=2012MolPE..62..542L |hdl=10261/76088|hdl-access=free}} This genus is most closely related to Luciobarbus and in itself is divided into three morphologically, biogeographically and genetically distinct groups or clades: the Mesopotamian clade, the Anatolian-Iranian clade and the Aralo-Caspian clade.{{cite journal | doi=10.1002/ece3.2411 | title=Phylogenetic relationships of freshwater fishes of the genus Capoeta (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) in Iran | date=2016 | last1=Ghanavi | first1=Hamid Reza | last2=Gonzalez | first2=Elena G. | last3=Doadrio | first3=Ignacio | journal=Ecology and Evolution | volume=6 | issue=22 | pages=8205–8222 | pmid=27878089 | pmc=5108271 | bibcode=2016EcoEv...6.8205G }}{{cite journal | pmc=5219896 | date=2016 | last1=Zareian | first1=H. | last2=Esmaeili | first2=H. R. | last3=Heidari | first3=A. | last4=Khoshkholgh | first4=M. R. | last5=Mousavi-Sabet | first5=H. | title=Contribution to the molecular systematics of the genus Capoeta from the south Caspian Sea basin using mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) | journal=Molecular Biology Research Communications | volume=5 | issue=2 | pages=65–75 | pmid=28097160 }} The Mesopotamian clade was split off to Paracapoeta in 2022.{{cite journal | doi=10.3897/ZSE.98.81463 | doi-access=free | title=Paracapoeta, a new genus of the Cyprinidae from Mesopotamia, Cilicia and Levant (Teleostei, Cypriniformes) | date=2022 | last1=Turan | first1=Davut | last2=Kaya | first2=Cüneyt | last3=Aksu | first3=İsmail | last4=Bektaş | first4=Yusuf | journal=Zoosystematics and Evolution | volume=98 | issue=2 | pages=201–212 }}