Capoetobrama

Capoetobrama is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae. The only species in the genus is Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi, the sharpray, a species of freshwater fish that is found in Central Asia, in a region shared by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. There are two recognized subspecies.^[2]

Capoetobrama
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Capoetobrama L. S. Berg, 1916
Species:	C. kuschakewitschi
Binomial name
Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi (Kessler, 1872)
Synonyms
Acanthobrama kuschakewitschi Kessler, 1872 Acanthobrama bogdanowi Kessler, 1877

Subspecies

• Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi kuschakewitschi (Kessler, 1872) (Sharpray)
• Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi orientalis A. M. Nikolskii, 1934 (Chu sharpray)