Barb (fish species)

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For the genus Barbus see Barbus, for many of the tropical aquarium fish commonly known as barbs, also see Puntius.

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

[edit] 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, Rasbora and Sawbwa.

[edit] Origin

The root of the word 'barb' is common in cyprinid names of European languages, likely from exposure to Latin^{[citation needed]}, for example:

• barbi from Finnish
• barba from Spanish
• barbeau from French and many others.