Petropsaro - Citizendia

Petropsaro

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Barbus
Species:	B. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Organisms with a conservation status of critically endangered have an extremely high risk of becoming extinct The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes. The Cypriniformes are an order of ray-finned fish, including the Carps Minnows Loaches and relatives The family Cyprinidae, from the Ancient Greek κυπρῖνος ( kuprīnos "carp" consists of the Carps Barbus is a Genus of Fish in the Cyprinidae family. The type species of this genus is the Common Barbel, first described euboicus

Binomial name

Barbus euboicus
Stephanidis, 1950

The Petropsaro (Barbus euboicus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes. The family Cyprinidae, from the Ancient Greek κυπρῖνος ( kuprīnos "carp" consists of the Carps It is found only in Greece. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent rivers. A habitat (which is Latin for "it inhabits" is an Ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular Species. "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there It is threatened by habitat loss. Habitat destruction is the process in which natural Habitat is rendered functionally unable to support the species originally present

Source

Crivelli, A. J. 2005. Barbus euboicus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.

This species of fish is known to be very fast and worth a large sum of money if caught