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Yellowfishes
Labeobarbus
Labeobarbus is a mid-sized ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are widely distributed throughout eastern Africa and especially southern Africa, but also in Lake Tana in Ethiopia. A common name, in particular for the southern species, is yellowfish. The scientific name refers to the fact that these large barbs remind of the fairly closely related "carps" in the genus Labeo in size and shape. As far as can be told, all Labeobarbus species...
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 122 known species
Large-scale Yellowfish
speciesLabeobarbus marequensis
Smallmouth Yellowfish
speciesLabeobarbus aeneus
Clanwilliam Yellowfish
speciesLabeobarbus seeberi
Kwazulu-natal Yellowfish
speciesLabeobarbus natalensis
Small-scale Yellowfish
speciesLabeobarbus polylepis
Largemouth Yellowfish
speciesLabeobarbus kimberleyensis
Labeobarbus oxyrhynchus
speciesLabeobarbus oxyrhynchus
Labeobarbus johnstonii
speciesLabeobarbus johnstonii
Labeobarbus altianalis
speciesLabeobarbus altianalis
Labeobarbus wurtzi
speciesLabeobarbus wurtzi
Labeobarbus batesii
speciesLabeobarbus batesii
Upper Zambezi Yellowfish
speciesLabeobarbus codringtonii
Labeobarbus intermedius
speciesLabeobarbus intermedius
Labeobarbus sacratus
speciesLabeobarbus sacratus
Labeobarbus progenys
speciesLabeobarbus progenys
Incomati Chiselmouth
speciesLabeobarbus nelspruitensis
Niger barb
speciesLabeobarbus bynni
Labeobarbus nedgia
speciesLabeobarbus nedgia
Labeobarbus malacanthus
speciesLabeobarbus malacanthus
Labeobarbus compiniei
speciesLabeobarbus compiniei
Labeobarbus somereni
speciesLabeobarbus somereni
Labeobarbus axelrodi
speciesLabeobarbus axelrodi
Labeobarbus beso
speciesLabeobarbus beso
Labeobarbus cardozoi
speciesLabeobarbus cardozoi
Labeobarbus trachypterus
speciesLabeobarbus trachypterus
Labeobarbus leleupanus
speciesLabeobarbus leleupanus
Lake Tana Labeobarbus
speciesLabeobarbus megastoma
Labeobarbus petitjeani
speciesLabeobarbus petitjeani
Labeobarbus parawaldroni
speciesLabeobarbus parawaldroni
Labeobarbus mariae
speciesLabeobarbus mariae
Labeobarbus sandersi
speciesLabeobarbus sandersi
Labeobarbus macrolepis
speciesLabeobarbus macrolepis
Labeobarbus caudovittatus
speciesLabeobarbus caudovittatus
Labeobarbus acuticeps
speciesLabeobarbus acuticeps
Labeobarbus gorguari
speciesLabeobarbus gorguari
Labeobarbus platystomus
speciesLabeobarbus platystomus
Labeobarbus rhinophorus
speciesLabeobarbus rhinophorus
Labeobarbus rocadasi
speciesLabeobarbus rocadasi
Labeobarbus surkis
speciesLabeobarbus surkis
Labeobarbus tsanensis
speciesLabeobarbus tsanensis
Labeobarbus versluysii
speciesLabeobarbus versluysii
Labeobarbus brevispinis
speciesLabeobarbus brevispinis
Labeobarbus habereri
speciesLabeobarbus habereri
Labeobarbus micronema
speciesLabeobarbus micronema
Labeobarbus latirostris
speciesLabeobarbus latirostris
Labeobarbus pellegrini
speciesLabeobarbus pellegrini
Labeobarbus pojeri
speciesLabeobarbus pojeri
Labeobarbus pungweensis
speciesLabeobarbus pungweensis
Rhinoceros Carp
speciesLabeobarbus rhinoceros
Labeobarbus robertsi
speciesLabeobarbus robertsi
congo yellowfish
speciesLabeobarbus stappersii
Labeobarbus steindachneri
speciesLabeobarbus steindachneri
Labeobarbus stenostoma
speciesLabeobarbus stenostoma
Labeobarbus tornieri
speciesLabeobarbus tornieri
Labeobarbus tropidolepis
speciesLabeobarbus tropidolepis
Labeobarbus upembensis
speciesLabeobarbus upembensis
Labeobarbus wittei
speciesLabeobarbus wittei
Labeobarbus xyrocheilus
speciesLabeobarbus xyrocheilus
Labeobarbus ansorgii
speciesLabeobarbus ansorgii
Labeobarbus boulengeri
speciesLabeobarbus boulengeri
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 89279.