''Barilius'' is a large
genus
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of
cyprinid
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freshwater fishes native to
Asia
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. Four
species
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in this genus have been
described since 2012.
Species
There are currently 31 recognized species in this genus:
[
* '' Barilius ardens'' ]Knight
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, A. Rai, D’Souza & Vijaykrishnan, 2015[Knight, J.D.M., Rai, A., D’Souza, R.K.P. & Vijaykrishnan, B. (2015): ''Barilius ardens'' (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species from the Western Ghats, India, with redescription of ''B. malabaricus'' and ''B. canarensis''. ''Zootaxa, 3926 (3): 396–412.'']
* '' Barilius bakeri'' ( F. Day, 1865)
* '' Barilius barila'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822)
* '' Barilius bendelisis'' ( F. Hamilton, 1807)
* '' Barilius bonarensis'' B. L. Chaudhuri, 1912
* '' Barilius borneensis'' T. R. Roberts, 1989
* '' Barilius canarensis'' ( Jerdon, 1849)[
* '' Barilius caudiocellatus'' X. L. Chu, 1984
* '' Barilius chatricensis'' Selim & Vishwanath, 2002
* '' Barilius cyanochlorus'' Plamoottil & Vineeth, 2020 (Kazargod Barilius)
* '' Barilius dimorphicus'' ]Tilak
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& Husain, 1990
* '' Barilius dogarsinghi'' Hora, 1921
* '' Barilius evezardi'' F. Day, 1872
* '' Barilius gatensis'' (Valenciennes
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, 1844)
* '' Barilius huahinensis'' Fowler, 1934 (possibly junior synonym of ''Opsarius koratensis
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'')
* '' Barilius infrafasciatus'' Fowler, 1934
* '' Barilius lairokensis'' Arunkumar & Tombi Singh, 2000
* '' Barilius malabaricus'' Jerdon, 1849[
* '' Barilius mesopotamicus'' L. S. Berg, 1932
* '' Barilius modestus'' F. Day, 1872
* '' Barilius naseeri'' Mirza, Rafiq & F. A. Awan, 1986
* '' Barilius nelsoni'' Barman, 1988
* '' Barilius ngawa'' Vishwanath & Manojkumar, 2002
* '' Barilius ornatus'' Sauvage, 1883
* '' Barilius pakistanicus'' Mirza & ]Sadiq
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, 1978
* '' Barilius pectoralis'' Husain, 2012
* '' Barilius ponticulus'' ( H. M. Smith, 1945)
* '' Barilius profundus'' Dishma & Vishwanath, 2012[Dishma, M. & Vishwanath, W. (2012)]
''Barilius profundus'', a new cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Koladyne basin, India.
''Journal of Threatened Taxa, 4 (2): 2363–2369.''
* '' Barilius radiolatus'' Günther, 1868
* '' Barilius shacra'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822)
* '' Barilius signicaudus'' Tejavej, 2012[Tejavej, A. (2012)]
''Barilius signicaudus'', a new species of cyprinid fish from Maeklong Basin, western Thailand (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae).
''Zootaxa, 3586: 138–147.''
* '' Barilius vagra'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822)
References
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