Barbatula

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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]

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

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[3]

References

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