Luciobarbus

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

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| image = Barbus bocagei 01 by-dpc.jpg

| image_caption = Luciobarbus bocagei

| taxon = Luciobarbus

| authority = Heckel, 1843

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = see text

| type_species = Luciobarbus esocinus

| type_species_authority = Heckel, 1843

| synonyms = {{Genus list

| Aspiobarbus | Berg, 1933

| Bertinichthys | Whitley, 1953

| Bertinius | P.W. Fang,1943

| Messinobarbus | Bianco, 1998

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| synonyms_ref = {{Cof family|family=Barbinae|access-date=12 December 2024}}

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Luciobarbus is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its members are found in fresh and brackish waters of southern Europe, northern Africa, the wider Near East, the Aral and Caspian Seas, and rivers associated with these. Several species in the genus are threatened. Most species are fairly small to medium-sized cyprinids, but the genus also includes several members that can surpass {{convert|1|m|ft|abbr=on}} in length and the largest, the mangar (L. esocinus) can reach {{cvt|2.3|m|ft}}.{{FishBase genus | genus = Luciobarbus | month = August | year = 2015}}

Systematics

The type species is Luciobarbus esocinus, for which the genus was established by Heckel in 1843. The scientific name essentially means "pike-barbel" (after the northern pike, Esox lucius).{{Cite web|date=7 June 2023|title=Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily BARBINAE Bleeker 1859 (Barbels)|url=https://etyfish.org/barbinae/|access-date=23 January 2024|website=The ETYFish Project|language=en-US}}

Like many other cyprinids, the present genus was long included in Barbus. It appears to be a very close relative of the typical barbels – which include that genus type species, Barbus barbus –, and may well warrant inclusion in Barbus. Many modern authors prefer to consider it a subgenus instead. It is, moreover, not entirely clear what species to place in Luciobarbus if it is deemed valid. The IUCN argues for a rather inclusive circumscription. Nonwithstanding the taxonomy and systematics of this ill-defined assemblage, their closest living relative is probably Aulopyge huegelii.de Graaf et al. (2007), Almodóvar et al. (2008), IUCN (2009)

Species

Luciobarbus contains the following recognised species:{{Cof genus|genus=Luciobarbus|access-date=12 December 2024}}

References

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  • {{aut|Almodóvar, Ana; Nicola, Graciela G. & Elvira, Benigno}} (2008): Natural hybridization of Barbus bocagei x Barbus comizo (Cyprinidae) in Tagus River basin, central Spain [English with French abstract]. Cybium 32(2): 99-102. [http://www.ucm.es/info/zoo/Vertebrados/elvira/Almodovaretal2008.pdf PDF fulltext]
  • {{aut|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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Category:Barbinae

Category:Cyprinidae genera

Category:taxa named by Johann Jakob Heckel