Turkestan barbel

The Turkestan barbel lives in the benthopelagic, freshwater environment.

The Turkestan barbel Barbus conocephalus is found in the Zeravshan river. The Gokcha barbel Barbus goktschaicus is found in the Lake Sevan in Armenia. The Kura barbel Barbus lacerta (Mtkvari barbel) is found in Syria. More

Contributions to the life history of the Turkestan barbel in the reservoirs of the Zarafshan basin Contributions to the life history of the black-throated blue warbler. Dendroica cacrulescens (Gmel. More

The Turkestan barbel Barbus conocephalus is found in the ZeravshanZeravshan Zeravshan River , whilst smaller and less well-known than the two great rivers of Central Asia, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya , is if anything more valuable as a source of irrigation in the region.... More

At the end of the 1980s, Turkestan barbel and Herat khramulya were intensively fished, while some other fish were already overfished. During the 1970s and 1980s the proportion of predators in the total catch increased. More

Order : Cypriniformes
Family : Cyprinidae
Genus : Barbus
Species : Barbus capito conocephalus
Authority : Kessler,1872