Telestes Explained

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

Species

There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:

• Telestes beoticus (Stephanidis, 1939) (Paskóviza)
• Telestes comes (Costa, 1838)
• Telestes croaticus (Steindachner, 1866) (Croatian pijor)
• Telestes dabar Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 2012^[1]
• 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^[1]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Bogutskaya, N.G., Zupancic, P., Bogut, I. & Naseka, A.M. (2012): Two new freshwater fish species of the genus Telestes (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from karst poljes in Eastern Herzegovina and Dubrovnik littoral (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia). ZooKeys, 180: 53–80.