Barbatula is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae native to Europe and Asia. They are found in streams, rivers and lakes, and the genus also includes Europe's only cavefish, which only was discovered in the DanubeâÂÂAachtopf system in Germany in 2015.
Barbatula formerly included many more species, but these have been moved to other genera, notably Oxynoemacheilus.
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:
- Barbatula altayensis <small>S. Q. Zhu, 1992</small>
- Barbatula barbatula <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> (Stone loach)
- Barbatula cobdonensis <small>(Gundriser 1973)</small>
- Barbatula compressirostris <small>(Warpachowski, 1897)</small>
- Barbatula conilobus <small>Prokofiev, 2016</small>
- Barbatula dgebuadzei <small>(Prokofiev, 2003)</small>
- Barbatula dsapchynensis <small>Prokofiev, 2016</small>
- Barbatula emuensis <small>H. Chen, H. Zhang, Y. Chen & Freyhof, 2019</small>
- Barbatula gibba <small>L. Cao, Causse & E. Zhang, 2012</small>
- Barbatula golubtsovi <small>(Prokofiev, 2003)</small>
- Barbatula hispanica <small>(Lelek, 1987)</small>
- Barbatula karabanowi <small>Prokofiev, 2018</small>
- Barbatula kirinensis <small>T.-L. Tchang, 1932</small>
- Barbatula leoparda <small>Gauliard, Dettai, Persat, Keith & Denys, 2019</small>
- Barbatula liaoyangensis <small>Chen, Zhang, Chen & Freyhof, 2019</small>
- Barbatula linjiangensis <small>Chen, Zhang, Chen & Freyhof, 2019</small>
- Barbatula markakulensis <small>(Men'shikov, 1939)</small>
- Barbatula nuda <small>(Bleeker, 1864)</small>
- Barbatula oreas <small>(D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903)</small>
- Barbatula pechiliensis <small>(Fowler, 1899)</small>
- Barbatula potaninorum <small>(Prokofiev, 2007)</small>
- Barbatula quignardi <small>(BÃÂcescu-MeÃ
Âter, 1967)</small>
- Barbatula restricta <small>Prokofiev, 2015</small>
- Barbatula sawadai <small>(Prokofiev, 2007)</small>
- Barbatula selengensis
- Barbatula sturanyi <small>(Steindachner, 1892)</small>
- Barbatula tomiana <small>(Ruzsky (), 1920)</small>
- Barbatula toni <small>(Dybowski, 1869)</small>
- Barbatula zetensis <small>(Ã
 oriÃÂ, 2000)</small>
- Barbatula zhangwuensis <small>Chen, Zhang, Chen & Freyhof 2019</small>
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