| Telestes | |
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| Telestes muticellus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Telestes Bonaparte, 18371 |
| Type species | |
| Telestes muticellus (Bonaparte, 1837)1
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Telestes is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. Many of the species in this genus were formerly usually included in Leuciscus.
Species
These are the currently recognised species in this genus:2
- Telestes alfiensis (Stephanidis, 1971)
- Telestes beoticus (Stephanidis, 1939) (Paskóviza)
- Telestes comes (Costa, 1838)
- Telestes croaticus (Steindachner, 1866) (Croatian pijor)
- Telestes dabar Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 20123 (Dabarsko dace)
- Telestes fontinalis (M. S. Karaman (sr), 1972) (Spring pijor)
- Telestes karsticus Marčić, Buj, Duplić, Ćaleta, Mustafić, Zanella, Zupančič & Mrakovčić, 2011 (Karst dace)
- Telestes metohiensis (Steindachner, 1901) (Striped dace)
- Telestes miloradi Bogutskaya, Zupančič, Bogut & Naseka, 20123 (Konavle dace)
- Telestes montenigrinus (Vuković, 1963) (Montenegro riffle dace)
- Telestes muticellus (Bonaparte, 1837) (Italian riffle dace)
- Telestes pleurobipunctatus (Stephanidis, 1939) (Epiros riffle dace)
- Telestes polylepis Steindachner, 1866 (Croatian dace)
- Telestes savigny Bonaparte, 1840
- Telestes souffia (A. Risso, 1827) (Western riffle dace)
- Telestes turskyi (Heckel, 1843) (Tursky's dace)
- Telestes ukliva (Heckel, 1843) (Cetina dace)
References
References
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Leuciscinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Telestes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
- 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.