Barbatula is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae native to Europe and Asia.[2][3] 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.[4][5]

Barbatula
Barbatula barbatula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Nemacheilidae
Genus: Barbatula
H. F. Linck, 1790
Type species
Cobitis barbatula
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
  • Cobites Swainson, 1839
  • Orthrias Jordan & Fowler, 1903

Barbatula formerly included many more species, but these have been moved to other genera, notably Oxynoemacheilus.[2]

Species

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There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:[3]

References

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  1. ^ Bailly, Nicolas (2014). "Barbatula Linck, 1790". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Barbatula". FishBase. February 2024 version.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Andy Coghlan (3 April 2017). "First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast". New Scientist. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  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.