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 DanubeAachtopf system in Germany in 2015.[3][4]

Barbatula
Barbatula barbatula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

References

  1. 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.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Barbatula in FishBase. April 2017 version.
  3. 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.
  4. Andy Coghlan (3 April 2017). "First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast". New Scientist. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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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