Barb (fish species)
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- For the genus Barbus see Barbus, for many of the tropical aquarium fish commonly known as barbs, also see Puntius.
Barb is a common and generic term for the species of fish within the genus Barbus and the famila Cyprinidae.
[edit] Variety
Genera that contain the species with the common name description of barb include:Barbichthys, Barbodes, Barboides, Barbonymus, Barbopsis, Barbus, Caecobarbus, Capoeta, Catla, Catlacarpio, Chela,, Coptostomabarbus, Cyclocheilichthys, Devario, Discherodontus, Esomus, Garra, Hypselobarbus, Labeobarbus, Leptobarbus, Megarasbora, Osteochilus, Poropuntius, Probarbus, Puntioplites, Rasbora and Sawbwa.
[edit] Origin
The root of the word 'barb' is common in cyprinid names of European languages, likely from exposure to Latin[citation needed], for example:
- barbi from Finnish
- barba from Spanish
- barbeau from French and many others.
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