Labeobarbus
Labeobarbus | |
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Clanwilliam yellowfish (Labeobarbus seeberi) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Cyprininae |
Genus: | Labeobarbus Rüppell, 1835 |
Type species | |
Labeobarbus nedgia Rüppell, 1835
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Diversity | |
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Synonyms | |
Labeobarbus is a mid-sized ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are widely distributed throughout eastern Africa and especially southern Africa, but also in Lake Tana in Ethiopia. A common name, in particular for the southern species, is yellowfish. The scientific name refers to the fact that these large barbs remind of the fairly closely related "carps" in the genus Labeo in size and shape. As far as can be told, all Labeobarbus species are hexaploid.[1]
Systematics[]
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 Near Eastern species nowadays separated in Carasobarbus. Barbus has been split to account for the improved phylogenetic knowledge which indicated it was highly paraphyletic in its wide circumscription –, it may be that Carasobarbus and some other closely related "barbs" (e.g. Labeobarbus reinii) are now included in Labeobarbus to avoid a profusion of very small genera.[2]
The taxonomy of many species in the "wastebin genus" Barbus has recently been re-evaluated. Though hybrid introgression may confound studies based in mtDNA data alone, a number of these species appear to be so closely related to Labeobarbus to warrant inclusion in the present genus outright, irrespective if Carasobarbus is considered distinct or not. These include L. ethiopicus.[2]
Species[]
Labeobarbus at present contains the following species:
- Labeobarbus acuticeps (, 1959)
- Labeobarbus acutirostris (, 1940)
- Labeobarbus aeneus (Burchell, 1822) (Smallmouth yellowfish)
- Labeobarbus alluaudi Pellegrin, 1909
- Labeobarbus altianalis Boulenger, 1900 (Ripon barbel)
- Labeobarbus altipinnis & Poll, 1973
- Labeobarbus ansorgii Boulenger, 1906
- Labeobarbus aspius (Boulenger, 1912)
- Labeobarbus axelrodi (Getahun, Stiassny & Teugels, 2004)
- Labeobarbus batesii (Boulenger, 1903)
- Labeobarbus beso (Rüppell, 1835)
- Labeobarbus boulengeri (Vreven, Musschoot, Snoeks & Schliewen, 2016)
- Labeobarbus brauni (Pellegrin, 1935)
- Labeobarbus brevicephalus ( & , 1997)
- Labeobarbus brevispinis (, 1927)
- Labeobarbus bynni (Forsskål, 1775)
- Labeobarbus cardozoi (Boulenger, 1912)
- Labeobarbus caudovittatus (Boulenger, 1902)
- Labeobarbus clarkeae (, 1984)
- Labeobarbus claudinae & , 1990
- Labeobarbus codringtonii (Boulenger, 1908) (Upper Zambezi yellowfish)
- Labeobarbus compiniei (Sauvage, 1879)
- Labeobarbus crassibarbis ( & , 1997)
- Labeobarbus dainellii (, 1940)
- Labeobarbus dartevellei Poll, 1945
- Labeobarbus dimidiatus & , 1998
- Labeobarbus ensifer Boulenger, 1910
- Labeobarbus ethiopicus , 1939
- Labeobarbus fasolt , 1914
- Labeobarbus fimbriatus , 1926
- Labeobarbus gananensis Vinciguerra, 1895
- Labeobarbus gestetneri & , 1979
- Labeobarbus girardi Boulenger, 1910
- Labeobarbus gorgorensis (, 1940)
- Labeobarbus gorguari (Rüppell, 1835)
- Labeobarbus gruveli Pellegrin, 1911
- Labeobarbus gulielmi Boulenger, 1910
- Labeobarbus habereri (Steindachner, 1912)
- Labeobarbus huloti , 1976
- Labeobarbus humphri , 1976
- Labeobarbus intermedius (Rüppell, 1835)
- Labeobarbus iphthimostoma & Poll, 1973
- Labeobarbus iturii , 1929
- Labeobarbus jaegeri , 1930
- Labeobarbus johnstonii (Boulenger, 1907)
- Labeobarbus jubae , 1984
- Labeobarbus jubbi Poll, 1967
- Labeobarbus kimberleyensis (Gilchrist & W. W. Thompson, 1913) (Largemouth yellowfish)
- Labeobarbus lagensis (Günther, 1868)
- Labeobarbus latirostris (Keilhack, 1908)
- Labeobarbus leleupanus , 1959\
- Labeobarbus lobogenysoides Pellegrin, 1935
- Labeobarbus longidorsalis Pellegrin, 1935
- Labeobarbus longifilis Pellegrin, 1935
- Labeobarbus longissimus ( & , 1997)
- Labeobarbus lucius (Boulenger, 1910)
- Labeobarbus lufupensis & , 1979
- Labeobarbus macroceps Fowler, 1936
- Labeobarbus macrolepidotus Pellegrin, 1928
- Labeobarbus macrolepis Pfeffer, 1889
- Labeobarbus macrophtalmus (, 1940)
- Labeobarbus malacanthus (, 1911)
- Labeobarbus marequensis (A. Smith, 1841) (Largescale yellowfish)
- Labeobarbus mariae , 1926
- Labeobarbus matris , 1928
- Labeobarbus mawambiensis Steindachner, 1911
- Labeobarbus mbami (, 1927)
- Labeobarbus megastoma ( & , 1997)
- †Labeobarbus microbarbis & Poll, 1937
- Labeobarbus micronema (Boulenger, 1904)
- Labeobarbus microterolepis Boulenger, 1902
- Labeobarbus mirabilis , 1914
- Labeobarbus mungoensis (Trewavas, 1974)
- Labeobarbus nanningsi (de Beaufort, 1933)
- Labeobarbus natalensis (Castelnau, 1861) (Scaly yellowfish)
- Labeobarbus nedgia Rüppell, 1835
- Labeobarbus nelspruitensis Gilchrist & W. W. Thompson, 1911 (Incomati chiselmouth)
- Labeobarbus nthuwa & , 2008
- Labeobarbus osseensis ( & , 2000)
- Labeobarbus oxyrhynchus Pfeffer, 1889 (Pangani barb)
- Labeobarbus pagenstecheri J. G. Fischer, 1884
- Labeobarbus parawaldroni , & , 1987
- Labeobarbus pellegrini Bertin & , 1948
- Labeobarbus petitjeani Daget, 1962
- Labeobarbus platydorsus ( & , 1997)
- Labeobarbus platyrhinus Boulenger, 1900
- Labeobarbus platystomus , 1914 (Rwandese carp)
- Labeobarbus pojeri (Poll, 1944)
- Labeobarbus polylepis (Boulenger, 1907) (Smallscale yellowfish)
- Labeobarbus progenys (Boulenger, 1903)
- Labeobarbus pungweensis , 1959 (Pungwe chiselmouth)
- Labeobarbus reinii Günther, 1874
- Labeobarbus rhinoceros (Copley, 1938) (Rhinofish)
- Labeobarbus rhinophorus Boulenger, 1910
- Labeobarbus robertsi , 1984
- Labeobarbus rocadasi (Boulenger, 1910)
- Labeobarbus rosae (Boulenger, 1910)
- Labeobarbus roylii (Boulenger, 1912)
- Labeobarbus ruandae , 1914
- Labeobarbus ruasae , 1914
- Labeobarbus ruwenzorii (Pellegrin, 1909)
- Labeobarbus sacratus Daget, 1963
- Labeobarbus sandersi Boulenger, 1912
- Labeobarbus seeberi (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1913) (Clanwilliam yellowfish)
- Labeobarbus semireticulatus Pellegrin, 1924
- Labeobarbus somereni Boulenger, 1911
- Labeobarbus stappersii Boulenger, 1915
- Labeobarbus steindachneri Boulenger, 1910
- Labeobarbus stenostoma Boulenger, 1910
- Labeobarbus surkis (Rüppell, 1835)
- Labeobarbus tornieri Steindachner, 1906
- Labeobarbus trachypterus Boulenger, 1915
- Labeobarbus tropidolepis Boulenger, 1900
- Labeobarbus truttiformis ( & , 1997)
- Labeobarbus tsanensis ( & , 1997)
- Labeobarbus upembensis & , 1979
- Labeobarbus urotaenia Boulenger, 1913
- Labeobarbus varicostoma Boulenger, 1910
- Labeobarbus versluysii (, 1929)
- Labeobarbus werneri , 1929
- Labeobarbus wittei & Poll, 1973
- Labeobarbus wurtzi Pellegrin, 1908
- Labeobarbus xyrocheilus & , 1998
Footnotes[]
References[]
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Labeobarbus in FishBase. August 2011 version.
- 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)
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) (2009): 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. Retrieved 2009-SEP-20.
- Labeobarbus
- Taxa named by Eduard Rüppell
- Cyprinidae genera