Capoeta razii, is a newly described species of freshwater cyprinid fish occurring mainly in the southern Caspian Sea basin, Iran.
[2] This species is named in honour of Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī, a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, and philosopher, for his important contributions in the history of medicine.
[1] In life the upper part of the body is golden brown, olive-green, or silver, and the belly is whitish up to the lateral line.
[1] Capoeta razii is found in many rivers and streams of the southern Caspian Sea basin.
It is one of the most abundant species in the Caspian Sea basin along with the members of the genus Alburnoides Jeitteles, 1861.