Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Cypriniformes
Subordo: Cyprinoidei
Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Smiliogastrinae
Genus Pseudobarbus
Species: P. afer – P. asper – P. burchelli – P. burgi – P. phlegethon – P. quathlambae – P. skeltoni – P. swartzi – P. tenuis
Name
Pseudobarbus Smith, 1841: Plate 11
Type species: Barbus burchelli Smith, 1841
Typification by subsequent designation of Jordan, 1919: 244
Synonyms
Oreodaimon Greenwood & Jubb, 1967
References
Chakona, A.; Swartz, E.R. 2013: A new redfin species, Pseudobarbus skeltoni (Cyprinidae, Teleostei), from the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Zootaxa 3686(5): 565–577. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3686.5.5 Reference page.
Chakona, A.; Swartz, E.R.; Skelton, P.H. 2014: A new species of redfin (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Pseudobarbus) from the Verlorenvlei River system, South Africa. ZooKeys, 453: 121–137. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.453.8072 Reference page.
Chakona, A. & Skelton, P.H. 2017. A review of the Pseudobarbus afer (Peters, 1864) species complex (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) in the eastern Cape Fold Ecoregion of South Africa. ZooKeys 657: 109–140. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11076 Reference page.
Smith, A. 1838-1847: Pisces. In: Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa in 1834-36, 4: 77 unnumb. pp, accompanying Pls. 1-31. [Published in parts; see Barnard 1950 for dates of individual parts; fishes from 1838-1847. Pl. 11 publ. in 1841.]
Greenwood, P.H. & Jubb, R.A. 1967: The generic identity of Labeo quathlambae Barnard (Pisces, Cyprinidae). Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums (Natural History), 6 (2): 17–37.
Jordan, D.S. 1919: The genera of fishes, part II, from Agassiz to Bleeker, 1833-1858, twenty-six years, with the accepted type of each. A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature. Leland Stanford Jr. University Publications, University Series No. 36: i-ix + 163-284 + i-xiii.
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Pseudobarbus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Pseudobarbus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Vernacular names
Afrikaans: Rooilerkies
English: Redfin minnows
Pseudobarbus is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. The type species is Burchell's redfin (P. burchelli). The scientific name is derived from the Ancient Greek pseudes ("false") and the Latin word barbus ("beard", in reference to the barbels of barbs). This genus contains some (and might contain all) of the South African redfins. It was originally proposed as a subgenus, but has since been found worthy of recognition as a full genus.
This genus is restricted to southern Africa; all of its species were formerly placed in Barbus, the genus of typical barbels and their relatives. One taxon was originally described as P. leonhardi – this, however, was a European fish for which the genus was erroneously proposed anew. It has since turned out to be nothing other than the barbel B. peloponnesius.
Species and systematics
Pseudobarbus was placed in the paraphyletic "subfamily" Barbinae by those that recognize that group, but if not included in the Cyprininae outright it might – like the other small African barbs – belong to an as yet unnamed subfamily.[1]
Currently, 11 recognized species are placed in this genus:[2]
Pseudobarbus afer W. K. H. Peters, 1864 (Eastern Cape redfin)
Pseudobarbus asper Boulenger, 1911 (small-scale redfin)
Pseudobarbus burchelli A. Smith, 1841 (Burchell's redfin)
Pseudobarbus burgi Boulenger, 1911 (Berg River redfin)
Pseudobarbus phlegethon Barnard, 1938 (fiery redfin)
Pseudobarbus quathlambae Barnard, 1938 (Maluti redfin)
Pseudobarbus senticeps (Smith, 1936)
Pseudobarbus skeltoni Chakona & Swartz, 2013 (giant redfin)[3]
Pseudobarbus swartzi Chakona & Skelton, 2017 (Gamtoos redfin)
Pseudobarbus tenuis Barnard, 1938 (slender redfin)
Pseudobarbus verloreni Chakona, Swartz & P. H. Skelton, 2014 (Verlorenvlei redfin)[4]
Species brought into synonymy
Pseudobarbus calidus – synonym of Sedercypris calidus (Clanwilliam redfin)
Pseudobarbus capensis – synonym of Cheilobarbus capensis (Cape whitefish, Berg-breede River whitefish)
Pseudobarbus erubescens – synonym of Sedercypris erubescens (Twee River redfin)
Pseudobarbus hospes – synonym of Namaquacypris hospes (Namaquab barb)
Pseudobarbus serra – synonym of Cheilobarbus serra (Sawfin)
Pseudobarbus trevelyani – synonym of Amatolacypris trevelyani (Border barb)
Some South African "redfin" barb were previously placed in Barbus, mainly due to a lack of taxonomic and systematic study of that huge "wastebin genus". They formed a clade distinct from the traditional Pseudobarbus and were more plesiomorphic. Certainly, they did not belong in the typical barbel:[1]
References
de Graaf, Martin; Megens, Hendrik-Jan; Samallo, Johannis & Sibbing, Ferdinand A. (2007): Evolutionary origin of Lake Tana's (Ethiopia) small Barbus species: indications of rapid ecological divergence and speciation. Anim. Biol. 57(1): 39–48. doi:10.1163/157075607780002069 (HTML abstract)
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2009). "Species in genus Pseudobarbus". FishBase.
Chakona, A. & Swartz, E.R. (2013): A new redfin species, Pseudobarbus skeltoni (Cyprinidae, Teleostei), from the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Zootaxa, 3686 (5): 565–577.
Chakona, A., Swartz, E.R. & Skelton, P.H. (2014): A new species of redfin (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Pseudobarbus) from the Verlorenvlei River system, South Africa. ZooKeys, 453: 121–137.
Further reading
Jordaan, M.; Van der Walt, R.; Swartz, E.R.; Impson, D. (2017). "Pseudobarbus burgi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T107660562A100170651. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T107660562A100170651.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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