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es in the

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. Its

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are found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in

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and

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. ''C. canis'' can reach in

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, but most other species are up to around half or one-quarter of that size. Like many other "

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s", it was long included in ''

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''. It appears to be a fairly close relative of the typical

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s and relatives – the genus ''Barbus'' proper –, but closer still to the large

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species nowadays separated in '' Labeobarbus''. Because of the improved

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knowledge which indicates ''Barbus'' was highly

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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.de Graaf ''et al.'' (2007) This genus is now classified in the

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Torinae.

Species

Carasobarbus chantrei - ZooKeys-339-001-g011

Carasobarbus sublimus - ZooKeys-339-001-g027

''Carasobarbus'' contains the following species:> * '' Carasobarbus apoensis'' ( Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977) (Arabian himri) * '' Carasobarbus canis'' (

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, 1842) (Jordan himri) * '' Carasobarbus chantrei'' ( Sauvage, 1882) (Orontes himri) * '' Carasobarbus doadrioi'' Jouladeh‐Roudbar, Kaya, Vatandoust & Ghanavi, 2024 * '' Carasobarbus exulatus'' (Banister & Clarke, 1977) (Hadramaut himri) * '' Carasobarbus fritschii'' ( Günther, 1874) * '' Carasobarbus hajhosseini'' Jouladeh‐Roudbar, Kaya, Vatandoust & Ghanavi, 2024 * '' Carasobarbus harterti'' (Günther, 1901) * '' Carasobarbus kosswigi'' ( Ladiges, 1960) (Kisslip himri) * '' Carasobarbus luteus'' ( Heckel, 1843) (Mesopotamian himri) * '' Carasobarbus moulouyensis'' ( Pellegrin, 1924). * '' Carasobarbus saadatii'' Jouladeh‐Roudbar, Kaya, Vatandoust & Ghanavi, 2024 * '' Carasobarbus sublimus'' Coad & Najafpour, 1997

Footnotes

References

* (2007): Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's (Ethiopia) small ''Barbus'' species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation. '' Anim. Biol.'' 57(1): 39–48. (HTML abstract) Torinae Cyprinid fish of Asia Cyprinidae genera {{Barbinae-stub