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Vistula barbel

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Vistula barbel
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Barbus
Species:
B. waleckii
Binomial name
Barbus waleckii
Rolik, 1970

The Vistula barbel (Barbus waleckii) is a disputed species of European freshwater fish in the cyprinid genus Barbus.

It is often included in B. cyclolepis. More recently, it has been hypothesized to be a natural 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

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  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Barbus waleckii". FishBase.
  • Barbus waleckii IUCN Red List v. 3.1, 2008