Barbinae

Barbinae Temporal range: Eocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Andalusian barbel (Luciobarbus sclateri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Division:	Teleostei
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Barbinae Bleeker, 1859
Genera
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Barbinae are a subfamily of fish included in the family Cyprinidae.^[1] The earliest fossil remains of this subfamily are known from the early-mid Eocene Sangkarewang Formation of Sumatra, Indonesia, with articulated specimens of several extinct genera known.^[2]

The taxonomy for this group has not been entirely worked out as some genera historically considered within it are still considered incertae sedis with respect to being a member of the family, and may be included here, while others may be moved to other subfamilies. The most serious problem pertains to the type genus Barbus itself as most of its species (including the type) are better fits for subfamily Cyprininae.^[3] A subfamily in a similar position is Labeoninae.

Genera

Barbinae contains the following extant genera:^[4]

• Aulopyge Heckel, 1841 — Western Balkans
• Barbus Daudin, 1805 — Eurasia, Africa (but this varies greatly by circumscription)
• Caecocypris Banister & Bunni, 1980 — a cave system in Iraq
• Capoeta Valenciennes, 1842 — West Asia
• Cyprinion Heckel, 1843 — all across West Asia, with easternmost occurrences in the Indus basin
• Kantaka Hora, 1942 — Western Ghats of India
• Luciobarbus Heckel, 1843 — the Iberian Peninsula, the Maghreb, West Asia (especially the Tigris–Euphrates), Southeast Europe, Central Asia
• Paracapoeta Turan, Kaya, Aksu, Bektaş, 2022 — West Asia
• Scaphiodonichthys Vinciguerra, 1890 — Indochina (including Yunnan, China)
• Schizocypris Regan, 1914 — Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan
• Semiplotus Bleeker, 1860 — South Asia, Myanmar

The following fossil genera are also known:^[5]

• †Eocyprinus Sanders, 1934 (early-mid Eocene of Indonesia)
• †Eosytchevskia Prokofiev, 2022 (=†Parabarbus Sytchevskaya, 1986 (preocc.)) (Middle Eocene of Kazakhstan)^[6]
• †Hadromos Murray, 2020 (early-mid Eocene of Indonesia)
• †Padangia Murray, 2019 (early-mid Eocene of Indonesia)
• †Sangkarewangia Murray, 2020 (early-mid Eocene of Indonesia)
• †Sundabarbus Murray, 2019 (early-mid Eocene of Indonesia)

Chinese molecular view

An alternative view common among molecular taxonomists, especially those of Chinese origin, describes the Barbinae (Chinese: 鲃亚科) as a well-supported clade consisting of at least:^[7][8][9]

• Acrossocheilus
• Barbus, typified by the DNA of Barbus barbus
• Barbodes
• Hampala
• Luciobarbus
• Mystacoleucus
• Onychostoma
• Puntius
• Probarbus
• Sinocyclocheilus
• Spinibarbus
• Tor

And Cyprinus, cladistically speaking. Sinocyclocheilus, Cyprinus, and Carassius are known to share an allotetraploidization event, and at least one of their two subgenomes falls into "Barbinae" in this sense.^[10] A more mainstream-compatible view would be to organize these groupings as tribes under Cyprininae, such as in Yang et al. (2010).^[11]

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Barbinae Bleeker, 1859". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
2. Murray, Alison M. (2020-01-02). "Early Cenozoic Cyprinoids (Ostariophysi: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae and Danionidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (1) e1762627. Bibcode:2020JVPal..40E2627M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1762627. ISSN 0272-4634.
3. Wang, Jing; Wu, XiaoYun; Chen, ZiMing; Yue, ZhaoPing; Ma, Wei; Chen, ShanYuan; Xiao, Heng; Murphy, Robert W.; Zhang, YaPing; Zan, RuiGuang; Luo, Jing (November 2013). "Molecular phylogeny of European and African Barbus and their West Asian relatives in the Cyprininae (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) and orogenesis of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau". Chinese Science Bulletin. 58 (31): 3738–3746. Bibcode:2013ChSBu..58.3738W. doi:10.1007/s11434-013-5878-z.
4. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Barbinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
5. Murray, Alison M. (2020-01-02). "Early Cenozoic Cyprinoids (Ostariophysi: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae and Danionidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (1) e1762627. Bibcode:2020JVPal..40E2627M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1762627. ISSN 0272-4634.
6. Prokofiev, A. M. (2022-08-01). "Eosytchevskia nom. nov.—a New Name for Parabarbus Sytchevskaya non Franz (Cyprinidae)". Journal of Ichthyology. 62 (4): 696–697. Bibcode:2022JIch...62..696P. doi:10.1134/S0032945222040191. ISSN 1555-6425.
7. Yang, Na (September 2021). "Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary history of Sinocyclocheilus (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) species within Barbinae in China". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 104 (9): 1149–1162. Bibcode:2021EnvBF.104.1149Y. doi:10.1007/s10641-021-01143-2.
8. Shan, Xianghong; Yue, Peiqi (1994). "The study on phylogeny of the sinocyclocheiline fishes (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Barbinae)". Zoological Research. 15: 36–44.^{[dead link]}
9. Description of a new cyprinid fish of the subfamily Barbinae from China, GH Cui, ZY Li - Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 1984
10. Xu, P; Xu, J; Liu, G; Chen, L; Zhou, Z; Peng, W; Jiang, Y; Zhao, Z; Jia, Z; Sun, Y; Wu, Y; Chen, B; Pu, F; Feng, J; Luo, J; Chai, J; Zhang, H; Wang, H; Dong, C; Jiang, W; Sun, X (11 October 2019). "The allotetraploid origin and asymmetrical genome evolution of the common carp Cyprinus carpio". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 4625. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10.4625X. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12644-1. PMC 6789147. PMID 31604932.
11. Yang, Lei; Mayden, Richard L.; Sado, Tetsuya; He, Shunping; Saitoh, Kenji; Miya, Masaki (November 2010). "Molecular phylogeny of the fishes traditionally referred to Cyprinini sensu stricto (Teleostei: Cypriniformes): Molecular phylogeny of Cyprinini sensu stricto". Zoologica Scripta. 39 (6): 527–550. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00443.x.

Further reading

• Bianco, Pier Giorgio (January 1998). "Diversity of Barbinae fishes in southern Europe with description of a new genus and a new species (Cyprinidae)". Italian Journal of Zoology. 65 (sup1): 125–136. Bibcode:1998IJZoo..65..125B. doi:10.1080/11250009809386804.
• Samallo, Johannis; Megens, Hendrik-Jan; De Graaf, Martin; Sibbing, Ferdinand (2007). "Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's (Ethiopia) small Barbus species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation". Animal Biology. 57 (1): 39–48. doi:10.1163/157075607780002069.