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As barbs are fishes from different genres of Cyprininae , a subfamily of carp called. In a narrower sense, these are the members of the European-West Asian genus Barbus . The term is also used for numerous other Asian and African carp fish species. These include numerous species from South and Southeast Asia that remain small and are kept in aquariums as ornamental fish, e.g. As the tiger barb ( puntigrus cf. tetrazona ) or cherry barb ( Puntius titteya ).
In older systematics, the barbs are placed in a subfamily Barbinae , which, however, is not a monophylum and cannot be differentiated from the Cyprininae by diagnostic features.
In a revision of the carp fish subfamily Cyprininae published in February 2015, a tribe Barbini Bleeker , 1859 for Barbus, and six other closely related Eurasian and northwest African carp species are introduced. The close relationship of the seven genera is based exclusively on molecular biological studies.
Genera of the Barbini
supporting documents
- ^ Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World , John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
- ↑ Lei Yanga, Tetsuya Sado, M. Vincent Hirt, Emmanuel Pasco-Viel, M. Arunachalam, Junbing Li, Xuzhen Wang, Jörg Freyhof, Kenji Saitoh, Andrew M. Simons, Masaki Miya, Shunping He, Richard L. Mayden (2015 ): Phylogeny and Polyploidy: Resolving the Classification of Cyprinine Fishes (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, February 2015, doi: 10.1016 / j.ympev.2015.01.014