Barbatula Explained
Barbatula is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae native to Europe and Asia.[1] 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.[2] [3]
Barbatula formerly included many more species, but these have been moved to other genera, notably Oxynoemacheilus.[1]
Species
There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:
- Barbatula altayensis S. Q. Zhu, 1992
- Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Barbatula bergamensis Erk'Akan, Nalbant & Özeren, 2007
- Barbatula compressirostris (Warpachowski, 1897)
- Barbatula dgebuadzei (Prokofiev, 2003)
- Barbatula farsica (Nalbant & Bianco, 1998)
- Barbatula gibba Cao, Causse & Zhang, 2012
- Barbatula golubtsovi (Prokofiev, 2003)
- Barbatula markakulensis (Men'shikov, 1939)
- Barbatula nuda (Bleeker, 1864)
- Barbatula potaninorum (Prokofiev, 2007)
- Barbatula quignardi (Băcescu-Meşter, 1967)
- Barbatula restricta Prokofiev, 2015[4]
- Barbatula sawadai (Prokofiev, 2007)
- Barbatula sturanyi (Steindachner, 1892)
- Barbatula tomiana (Ruzsky (ru), 1920)
- Barbatula toni (Dybowski, 1869)[5]
- Barbatula zetensis (Šorić, 2000)
Notes and References
- Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
- Behrmann-Godel, J. . A.W. Nolte . J. Kreiselmaier . R. Berka . J. Freyhof . The first European cave fish . 2017 . . 27. 7. R257–R258. 10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.048 . 28376329. free .
- News: First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast . Andy Coghlan . 3 April 2017. . 17 April 2017.
- Prokofiev. A. M.. A new species of Barbatula from the Russian Altai (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa. 2015. 4052. 4. 457. 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.3.
- Prokofiev. A. M.. Redescription and systematic position of nominal loach species Nemacheilus compressirostris and N. sibiricus (Nemacheilidae). Journal of Ichthyology. 2016. 56. 4. 488–497. 10.1134/S0032945216040111.
