Barbus

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Barbus
Barbus barbus
Barbus plebejus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Barbus
Daudin, 1805[1][2]
Type species
Cyprinus barbus

Barbus is a

ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of Barbus is the common barbel, first described as Cyprinus barbus and now named Barbus barbus. Barbus is the namesake genus of the subfamily Barbinae, but given their relationships, that taxon is better included in the Cyprininae
at least for the largest part (including the type species of Barbus).

Description and uses

Their common names –

barbels – refer to the fact that most members of the genera have a pair of barbels
on their mouths, which they can use to search for food at the bottom of the water.

Barbels are often fished for food; in some locations they are of commercial significance. The roe of barbels is poisonous, however. The large Barbus barbs are also often eaten in their native range.

The smaller barbs are in some cases traded as aquarium fish. Some are quite significant, but as a whole, the genus is not yet as well represented in aquaria as the Southeast Asian Puntius.[3]

Systematics and taxonomy

Barbus has a long history as a "

Mesopotamichthys, Poropuntius, Probarbus, Pseudobarbus, Puntioplites and Puntius.[4]

Thus, Barbus is for the time being restricted to the typical barbels and barbs', and only contains fishes from

L. reinii) may well belong in Labeobarbus.[citation needed
]

The small barbs from Africa, by contrast, are quite distinct. They might even warrant establishment of a new

monophyletic and belong in Pseudobarbus entirely, instead of being split between Pseudobarbus and Barbus.[citation needed
]

Species

Fossil species

A fossil species (Barbus megacephalus Günther, 1876) is known from the Paleogene Sipang Fauna of Indonesia.,[6] but it probably should be placed in another genus.

See also

References

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  1. ^ Skelton, P. H., Swartz, E. R., & Vreven, E. J. (2018). The identity of Barbus capensis Smith, 1841 and the generic status of southern African tetraploid cyprinids (Teleostei, Cyprinidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, (410). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.410
  2. ^ Englmaier GK, Tesfaye G, Bogutskaya NG (2020) A new species of Enteromius (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae, Smiliogastrinae) from the Awash River, Ethiopia, and the re-establishment of E. akakianus. ZooKeys 902: 107-150. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.902.39606
  3. ISBN 0-7858-0867-1
  4. ^ Banister, K.E. (1973): A revision of the large Barbus (Pisces, Cyprinidae) of East and Central Africa. Studies on African Cyprinidae. Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum, 26 (1): 3-148.
  5. ^ Antal, L., László, B., Kotlík, P., Mozsár, A., Czeglédi, I., Oldal, M., Kemenesi, G., Jakab, F. & Nagy, S.A. (2015): Phylogenetic evidence for a new species of Barbus in the Danube River basin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 96: 187–194.
  6. ^ Woodward, A.S. (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). order of the Trustees. p. 302. barbus megacephalus.
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