Carasobarbus

Carasobarbus, the himris, is a small genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in Western Asia and Northwest Africa.[1] C. canis can reach 66 cm (26 in) in total length, but most other species are up to around half or one-quarter of that size.[1]

Carasobarbus
Carasobarbus apoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Carasobarbus
M. S. Karaman (sr), 1971
Type species
Systomus luteus
Heckel, 1843

Like many other "barbs", it was long included in Barbus. It appears to be a fairly close relative of the typical barbels and relatives the genus Barbus proper , but closer still to the large hexaploid species nowadays separated in Labeobarbus. Because of the improved phylogenetic knowledge which indicates Barbus was highly paraphyletic in its wide circumscription , Carasobarbus and some other closely related "barbs" (e.g. "Barbus" reinii) may be included in Labeobarbus to avoid a profusion of very small genera.[2]

Species

Carasobarbus contains the 10 species:[1]

Footnotes

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Carasobarbus in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  2. de Graaf et al. (2007)

References

  • de Graaf, Martin; Megens, Hendrik-Jan; Samallo, Johannis & Sibbing, Ferdinand A. (2007): Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's (Ethiopia) small Barbus species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation. Anim. Biol. 57(1): 39–48. doi:10.1163/157075607780002069 (HTML abstract)


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