| Barbatula | |
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| Barbatula barbatula | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Nemacheilidae |
| Genus: | Barbatula H. F. Linck, 1790 |
| Type species | |
| Cobitis barbatula Linnaeus, 1758
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Barbatula is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae native to Europe and Asia.[2][3] They are found in streams, rivers and lakes, and the genus also includes Europe's only cavefish, which only was discovered in the Danube–Aachtopf system in Germany in 2015.[4][5]
Barbatula formerly included many more species, but these have been moved to other genera, notably Oxynoemacheilus.[2]
- ^ Bailly, Nicolas (2014). "Barbatula Linck, 1790". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ a b Kottelat, M. (2012): Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Barbatula". FishBase. February 2024 version.
- ^ Behrmann-Godel, J.; A.W. Nolte; J. Kreiselmaier; R. Berka; J. Freyhof (2017). "The first European cave fish". Current Biology. 27 (7): R257–R258. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.048. PMID 28376329.
- ^ Andy Coghlan (3 April 2017). "First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast". New Scientist. Retrieved 17 April 2017.