Telestes

For the king of Corinth with this name, see Bacchiadae.

Telestes
Telestes muticellus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Leuciscidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Telestes Bonaparte, 1837 [1]
Type species
Telestes muticellus (Bonaparte, 1837) [1]
Species
See text

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, 2012 ^[3] (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, 2012 ^[3] (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

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Leuciscinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 8 May 2025.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Telestes". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 8 May 2025.
3. 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.