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» For the genus Barbus see there. For many of the tropical aquarium fish commonly known as "barbs", see Barbinae.

Barb is a common and generic term for the species of fish within the genus Barbus and the famila Cyprinidae.

Variety

Genera that contain the species with the common name description of barb include:Barbichthys, Barbodes, Barboides, Barbonymus, Barbopsis, Barbus, Caecobarbus, Capoeta, Catla, Catlacarpio, Chela,, Coptostomabarbus, Cyclocheilichthys, Devario, Discherodontus, Esomus, Garra, Hypselobarbus, Labeobarbus, Leptobarbus, Megarasbora, Osteochilus, Poropuntius, Probarbus, Puntioplites, Puntius, Rasbora and Sawbwa.

Origin

The root of the word 'barb' is common in cyprinid names of European languages, likely from exposure to Latin, for example:
  • barbi from Finnish
  • barba from Spanish
  • barbeau from French and many others.

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