WHATSTHATFISH
Bony fish

Barbel

Barbus barbus

Also known as: Common Barbel, European Barbel, River Barbel

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2024
Adult
@NatureWatcher · Walton, United Kingdom · June 20211 / 1
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Overview

Found in schools, occasionally in lakes, but usually over gravel bottoms, hiding under overhanging trees and bridges during the day, dispersing at night to feed, in lowland reaches of clear, warm, medium sized rivers, with fast currents.
Juveniles found in very shallow bottoms of shorelines.
Widespread Europe

Very common in the aquarium trade.
Cyprinids are stomachless fish with toothless jaws.

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How to identify

Pattern
speckled
Head & Mouth
barbels

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Habitat & where to find it

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Found in schools, occasionally in lakes, but usually over gravel bottoms, hiding under overhanging trees and bridges during the day, dispersing at night to feed, in lowland reaches of clear, warm, medium sized rivers, with fast currents.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderCypriniformes
    5. familyCyprinidae
    6. genusBarbus
    7. speciesBarbus barbus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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    More in the family

    Minnows-Carps (Cyprinidae)