Leucalburnus

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Leucalburnus is a very small genus of fish with only one species, Leucalburnus satunini. It is also called the mountain dace or White Kura bleak. This ray-finned fish belongs to the dace family (Leuciscidae) and lives in fast-flowing mountain streams in a small high‑altitude plain in the upper Kura River area of eastern Turkey. Its conservation status is Least Concern.

Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Actinopterygii
- Order: Cypriniformes
- Family: Leuciscidae
- Subfamily: Leuciscinae
- Genus: Leucalburnus (Berg, 1916)
- Species: Leucalburnus satunini (Berg, 1910)
- Synonyms: Phoxinus satunini