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Concepts
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreBarbel
Carp-like freshwater fish with distinctive mouth barbelsCarp · Rivers and lakes
🇰🇪 Kenya and 4 moreRipon barbel
A large freshwater cyprinid from East African lakes and rivers.Carp · Rivers and lakes · 1900
WorldStareater
Small deep-sea fish with a red glowing lureOther · Deep sea
WorldBlack dragonfish
Deep-sea fish with infrared light and stalked larval eyesOther · Open ocean
WorldPacific blackdragon
Deep-sea fish with light-absorbing skin and a glowing chin lure.Other · Open ocean
WorldGoatfish
Benthic fish with chin barbels found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1758
WorldBarb
A common name for various ray-finned cyprinid fish, especially in the genera Barbus and Puntius.Carp · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 BrazilPiraíba
A massive Amazonian catfish known for its long barbels and role as an apex predator.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
🇮🇷 Iran and 3 moreMangar
Large cyprinid fish of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.Carp · Rivers and lakes · 1843
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreStone loach
A small European freshwater fish that hides under gravel and hunts at night.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇮🇶 IraqBinni
A plant-eating barbel from the Tigris and Euphrates marshes.Carp · Rivers and lakes
🇦🇺 AustraliaLongnose sawshark
A slender Australian shark with a long, toothed snout.Shark · Coasts and shelves
WorldLabeobarbus
A genus of mid-sized ray-finned fish widely distributed in eastern and southern Africa.Carp · Rivers and lakes
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Ripon barbel: Georges Albert Boulenger, Public domain, source
- Labeobarbus: Brian.gratwicke, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stareater: Peter Marriott, Public domain, source
- Black dragonfish: GM. Woodward, Public domain, source
- Pacific blackdragon: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Goatfish: Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia ( Original text: albert kok ), Public domain, source
- Barb: Andrew69., CC BY 3.0, source
- Piraíba: Carl H. Eigenmann / Barton Appler Bean, Public domain, source
- Mangar: maleek silawi, CC BY 3.0, source
- Stone loach: Michal Maňas, CC BY 3.0, source
- Binni: IReza salighehzadeh, CC BY 3.0, source
- Barbel: Neil Phillips, CC BY 2.0, source
- Longnose sawshark: William Buelow Gould (1801 - 1853). Reproduction by the Allport Librar, Public domain, source