Capoeta damascina, the Levantine scraper[1] or Mesopotamian barb, is a species of cyprinid fish from the Near East region.

It is reported from Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Turkey.

[1][3] It is a bottom feeding fish, up to 50 cm (1.6 ft) long but typically about 30 cm (1 ft), and it lives in lakes as well as both fast and slow-moving streams, and both in clear and muddy waters.

It is said to have tasteless flesh and toxic eggs.

[2] It has been recorded hybridising with Carasobarbus canis but these hybrids are sterile.