Carasobarbus

Carasobarbus, the himris, is a small genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in Western Asia and Northwest Africa.[1] C. canis can reach 66 cm (26 in) in total length, but most other species are up to around half or one-quarter of that size.[1]

Carasobarbus
Carasobarbus apoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Carasobarbus
M. S. Karaman (sr), 1971
Type species
Systomus luteus
Heckel, 1843

Like many other "barbs", it was long included in Barbus. It appears to be a fairly close relative of the typical barbels and relatives – the genus Barbus proper –, but closer still to the large hexaploid species nowadays separated in Labeobarbus. Because of the improved phylogenetic knowledge which indicates Barbus was highly paraphyletic in its wide circumscription –, Carasobarbus and some other closely related "barbs" (e.g. "Barbus" reinii) may be included in Labeobarbus to avoid a profusion of very small genera.[2]

Species
Carasobarbus chantrei
Carasobarbus sublimus

Carasobarbus contains the 10 species:[1]

Footnotes
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Carasobarbus in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  2. de Graaf et al. (2007)
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References
  • de Graaf, Martin; Megens, Hendrik-Jan; Samallo, Johannis & Sibbing, Ferdinand A. (2007): Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's (Ethiopia) small Barbus species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation. Anim. Biol. 57(1): 39–48. doi:10.1163/157075607780002069 (HTML abstract)


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