Barbatula
Barbatula is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae native to Europe and Asia.[1][2] They are found in streams, rivers and lakes, and the genus also includes Europe's only cavefish, which only was discovered in the Danube–Aachtopf system in Germany in 2015.[3][4]
| Barbatula | |
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| Barbatula barbatula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Barbatula H. F. Linck, 1790 |
| Type species | |
| Cobitis barbatula Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Barbatula formerly included many more species, but these have been moved to other genera, notably Oxynoemacheilus.[1]
Species
There are currently 19 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Barbatula altayensis S. Q. Zhu, 1992
- Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Barbatula cobdonensis (Gundrizer, 1973)
- Barbatula conilobus Prokofiev, 2016[5]
- Barbatula dgebuadzei (Prokofiev, 2003)
- Barbatula dsapchynensis Prokofiev, 2016[5]
- Barbatula golubtsovi (Prokofiev, 2003)
- Barbatula markakulensis (Men'shikov, 1939)
- Barbatula minxianensis (X. T. Wang & S. Q. Zhu, 1979)
- Barbatula nuda (Bleeker, 1864)
- Barbatula oreas (D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903)
- Barbatula potaninorum (Prokofiev, 2007)
- Barbatula quignardi (Băcescu-Meşter, 1967)
- Barbatula restricta Prokofiev, 2015[6]
- Barbatula sawadai (Prokofiev, 2007)
- Barbatula sturanyi (Steindachner, 1892)
- Barbatula tomiana (Ruzsky (ru), 1920)
- Barbatula toni (Dybowski, 1869)[7]
- Barbatula zetensis (Šorić, 2000)
References
- Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Barbatula in FishBase. April 2017 version.
- Behrmann-Godel, J.; A.W. Nolte; J. Kreiselmaier; R. Berka; J. Freyhof (2017). "The first European cave fish". Current Biology. 27 (7): R257–R258. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.048. PMID 28376329.
- Andy Coghlan (3 April 2017). "First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast". New Scientist. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- Prokofiev, A. M. (2016). "Loaches of the genus Barbatula (Nemacheilinae) of the Zavkhan River basin (Western Mongolia)". Journal of Ichthyology. 56 (6): 818–831. doi:10.1134/S0032945216060084.
- Prokofiev, A. M. (2015). "A new species of Barbatula from the Russian Altai (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4052 (4): 457. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.3.
- Prokofiev, A. M. (2016). "Redescription and systematic position of nominal loach species Nemacheilus compressirostris and N. sibiricus (Nemacheilidae)". Journal of Ichthyology. 56 (4): 488–497. doi:10.1134/S0032945216040111.
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