Vistula barbel
| Barbus waleckii | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Genus: | Barbus |
| Species: | B. waleckii |
| Binomial name | |
| Barbus waleckii Rolik, 1970 | |
Barbus waleckii, or the Vistula barbel, is a disputed species of Euopean freshwater fish in the cyprinid genus Barbus.
It is often included in B. cyclolepis. More recently, it has been hypothesized to be a hatural hybrid that originated from a common barbel (B. barbus) female mating with a Carpathian barbel (B. carpathicus) male. Nevertheless the populations do not seem to represent first-generation hybrids. It is recorded or suspected from Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine.
Footnotes
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Barbus waleckii" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
- Barbus waleckii IUCN Red List v. 3.1, 2008