Barbus plebejus

Barbus plebejus

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Cyprininae
Tribus: Barbini
Genus: Barbus
Species: Barbus plebejus

Name

Barbus plebejus Bonaparte, 1839

• Lectotype: ANSP 6183.
  • Lectotype designated by Bianco 1995.
• Paralectotypes: ANSP 6184-88 (5), ?USNM 10079 (2).

Type locality: Lake Como, Italy.

Etymology: plebius (= common), allusion not explained; name dates to Valenciennes (1829) and may refer its being described as a variant of the Common Barbel, B. vulgaris (= barbus). (From The ETYFish project)

Vernacular names

English: Italian Barbel

References

• Bianco, P.G. 1995. A revision of the Italian Barbus species (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 6(4): 305–324. Reference page. 
• Bonaparte, C.L. 1839. Iconografia della fauna italica per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati. Tomo III. Pesci. Roma. Fasc. 24–26, puntata 121–135, 8 pls. Reference page. 
• Geiger, M.F., Schreiner, C., Delmastro, G.B. & Herder, F. 2016. Combining geometric morphometrics with molecular genetics to investigate a putative hybrid complex: a case study with barbels Barbus spp. (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Journal of Fish Biology, Article first published online: 25 JAN 2016.DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12871 Reference page. 

Links

• Barbus plebejus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Barbus plebejus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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