Carasobarbus is a small genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are found around the Near East region.

Like many other "barbs", it was long included in Barbus. It appears to be a fairly close relative of the typical barbels and relatives – the genus Barbus proper –, but closer still to the large hexaploid species nowadays separated in Labeobarbus. As Barbus is likely to be split up in the near future – to account for the improved phylogenetic knowledge which indicates it is highly paraphyletic in its wide circumscription –, it may be that Carasobarbus and some other closely related "barbs" (e.g. "Barbus reinii) will eventually be included in Labeobarbus to avoid a profusion of very small genera.^[1]

Species

Carasobarbus contains the following species:

• Carasobarbus apoensis (Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977)
• Carasobarbus canis (Valenciennes, 1842)
• Carasobarbus chantrei (Sauvage, 1882)
• Carasobarbus exulatus (Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977)
• Carasobarbus luteus (Heckel, 1843)

Footnotes

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Carasobarbus in FishBase. August 2011 version.
• de Graaf, Martin; Megens, Hendrik-Jan; Samallo, Johannis & Sibbing, Ferdinand A. (2007): Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's (Ethiopia) small Barbus species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation. Anim. Biol. 57(1): 39-48. doi:10.1163/157075607780002069 (HTML abstract)

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