Barbatula
''Barbatula'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Nemacheilidae native to Europe and Asia.Kottelat, M. (2012)Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Suppl. No. 26: 1-199.'' They are found in streams, rivers and lakes, and the genus also includes Europe's only cavefish, which only was discovered in the Danube Sinkhole, Danube–Aachtopf system in Germany in 2015. ''Barbatula'' formerly included many more species, but these have been moved to other genera, notably ''Oxynoemacheilus''. Species These are the currently recognized species in this genus: * ''Barbatula altayensis'' Zhu Song-Quan, S. Q. Zhu, 1992 * ''Barbatula barbatula'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 1758) (Stone loach) * ''Barbatula cobdonensis'' (Aleksey Nikolaevich Gundriser, Gundriser 1973) * ''Barbatula compressirostris'' (Nikolai Arkadewich Warpachowski, Warpachowski, 1897) * ''Barbatula conilobus'' Artem M. P ...
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