Barbinae

Belongs within: Cypriniformes.

The Barbinae, barbels, are a group of cyprinid fishes with an inferior mouth associated with two pairs of barbels.

<==Barbinae
    |--Typhlobarbus Chu & Chen 1982TP86
    |    `--T. nudiventris Chu & Chen 1982TP86
    |--VaricorhinusTD03
    |    |--V. bacbatulus (Pellegrin 1908)TD03
    |    `--V. ruandusB50
    `--BarbusKKV03
         |--B. acutirostrisSN98
         |--B. altianalisG74
         |--B. aphantogrammaB50
         |--B. banguelensisB50
         |--B. barbus (Linnaeus 1758)SE08
         |--B. brevicephalusSN98
         |--B. callensisKKV03
         |--B. crassibarbisSN98
         |--B. dainelliiSN98
         |--B. eurystomusB50
         |--B. eutaeniaB50
         |--B. globicepsB50
         |--B. gorguariSN98
         |--B. holoteaniaTP86
         |--B. innocensB50
         |--B. intermedius (Rüppell 1836)SN98
         |--B. johnstoniiB50
         |--B. macrophtalmusSN98
         |--B. megastomaSN98
         |--B. nedgiaSN98
         |--B. paludinosusCS77
         |--B. pellegriniB50
         |--B. peloponnesius Valenciennes 1842SE08
         |--B. plebejus Bonaparte 1839SE08
         |--B. rhoadesiiB50
         |--B. rogersiB50
         |--B. sachiSL86
         |--B. schejkiB96
         |--B. serriferB50
         |--B. surkisSN98
         |--B. torB96
         |--B. trimaculatusB50
         |--B. truttiformisSN98
         `--B. tsanensisSN98

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B96] Bond, C. E. 1996. Biology of Fishes 2^nd ed. Saunders College Publishing: Fort Worth.

[B50] Brooks, J. L. 1950. Speciation in ancient lakes (concluded). Quarterly Review of Biology 25: 131–176.

[CS77] Cramp, S., & K. E. L. Simmons (eds) 1977. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palaearctic vol. 1. Ostrich to Ducks. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

[G74] Greenwood, P. H. 1974. The cichlid fishes of Lake Vistoria, East Africa: the biology and evolution of a species flock. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Zoology Suppl. 6: 1–134.

[KKV03] Kontula, T., S. V. Kirilchik & R. Väinölä. 2003. Endemic diversification of the monophyletic cottoid fish species flock in Lake Baikal explored with mtDNA sequencing. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27: 143–155.

[SL86] Schaefer, S. A., & G. V. Lauder. 1986. Historical transformation of functional design: evolutionary morphology of feeding mechanisms in loricarioid catfishes. Systematic Zoology 35 (4): 489–508.

[SE08] Sevcsik, A., & T. Erös. 2008. A revised catalogue of freshwater fishes of Hungary and the neighbouring countries in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Pisces). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 100: 331–383.

[SN98] Sibbing, F. A., L. A. J. Nagelkerke, R. J. M. Stet & J. W. M. Osse. 1998. Speciation of endemic Lake Tana barbs (Cyprinidae. 1998. Speciation of endemic Lake Tana barbs (Cyprinidae, Ethiopia) driven by trophic resource partitioning; a molecular and ecomorphological approach. Aquatic Ecology 32: 217–227.

[TP86] Thinès, G., & G. Proudlove. 1986. Pisces. In: Botosaneanu, L. (ed.) Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) pp. 709–733. E. J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys: Leiden.

[TD03] Tsai, M.-L., & C.-F. Dai. 2003. Cannibalism within mating pairs of the parasitic isopod, Ichthyoxenus fushanensis. Journal of Crustacean Biology 23 (3): 662–668.