title: Heckel's Orontes barbel
text: # Heckel's Orontes barbel
  
  Heckel’s Orontes barbel or Levantine barbel (Luciobarbus pectoralis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Luciobarbus from the Orontes River basin (including Asi Nehri) in the Near East.
  
  