Species group · Bony fish
WAnimals has 2 species of barb, in the family Cyprinidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 61 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
As many as 130 males may take part in a single spawning over gravel scrapes.
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It eats invertebrates such as crustaceans, insect larvae and molluscs, and occasionally small fish.
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It lives in fast, deep river stretches with gravel or stone beds across northern Europe.
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It needs to live in a shoal: kept alone it turns aggressive towards other fish.
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It is a shoaling fish and needs groups of five or more; alone or in pairs it turns into a fin-nipper.
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The genus Puntigrus was created in 2013 to separate several near-identical species previously lumped together as the tiger barb.
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