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Puntius Hamilton, 1822
Taxonomic Serial No.: 163706

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Eechathalakenda Menon, 1999
		Systomus McClelland, 1839
	Common Name(s):	spotted barbs [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2005

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Actinopterygii – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées
	Class	Teleostei
	Superorder	Ostariophysi
	Order	Cypriniformes – cyprins, meuniers, minnows, suckers
	Superfamily	Cyprinoidea
	Family	Cyprinidae – carps, minnows, carpas y carpitas, carpes et ménés, carps and minnows, carpes, ménés, carpitas, carpas
	Genus	Puntius Hamilton, 1822 – spotted barbs
		Direct Children:
	Species	Puntius amarus (Herre, 1924)
	Species	Puntius ambassis (Day, 1869)
	Species	Puntius amphibius (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1842)
	Species	Puntius anchisporus (Vaillant, 1902)
	Species	Puntius aphya (Günther, 1868)
	Species	Puntius arenatus (Day, 1878)
	Species	Puntius arulius (Jerdon, 1849) – longfin barb, Aruli barb, arulius barb
	Species	Puntius asoka Kottelat and Pethiyagoda, 1989
	Species	Puntius aurotaeniatus (Tirant, 1885)
	Species	Puntius bandula Kottelat and Pethiyagoda, 1991
	Species	Puntius banksi Herre, 1940
	Species	Puntius bantolanensis (Day, 1914)
	Species	Puntius bimaculatus (Bleeker, 1863)
	Species	Puntius binotatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1842) – spotted barb
	Species	Puntius bizonatus Vishwanath and Laisram, 2004
	Species	Puntius bramoides (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1842)
	Species	Puntius brevis (Bleeker, 1850)
	Species	Puntius burmanicus (Day, 1878)
	Species	Puntius cataractae (Fowler, 1934)
	Species	Puntius chalakkudiensis Menon, Rema Devi and Thobias, 1999
	Species	Puntius chelynoides (McClelland, 1839)
	Species	Puntius chola (Hamilton, 1822)
	Species	Puntius compressiformis (Cockerell, 1913)
	Species	Puntius conchonius (Hamilton, 1822) – rosy barb
	Species	Puntius crescentus Yazdani and Singh, 1994
	Species	Puntius cumingii (Günther, 1868) – Cuming's barb
	Species	Puntius deccanensis Yazdani and Babu Rao, 1976
	Species	Puntius denisonii (Day, 1865)
	Species	Puntius disa (Herre, 1932)
	Species	Puntius dorsalis (Jerdon, 1849)
	Species	Puntius dorsimaculatus (Ahl, 1923)
	Species	Puntius dunckeri (Ahl, 1929)
	Species	Puntius endecanalis Roberts, 1989
	Species	Puntius everetti (Boulenger, 1894) – clown barb
	Species	Puntius fasciatus (Jerdon, 1849) – banded barb
	Species	Puntius filamentosus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1844) – black-spot barb, blackspot barb
	Species	Puntius flavifuscus (Herre, 1924)
	Species	Puntius foerschi (Kottelat, 1982)
	Species	Puntius fraseri (Hora and Misra, 1938)
	Species	Puntius gelius (Hamilton, 1822) – dwarf barb, golden dwarf barb
	Species	Puntius gemellus Kottelat, 1996
	Species	Puntius guganio (Hamilton, 1822) – glass-barb
	Species	Puntius hemictenus (Jordan and Richardson, 1908)
	Species	Puntius herrei (Fowler, 1934)
	Species	Puntius hexazona (Weber and de Beaufort, 1912)
	Species	Puntius jacobusboehlkei (Fowler, 1958)
	Species	Puntius jayarami Vishwanath Singh and Tombi Singh, 1986
	Species	Puntius jerdoni (Day, 1870)
	Species	Puntius johorensis (Duncker, 1904)
	Species	Puntius kannikattiensis Arunachalam and Johnson, 2003
	Species	Puntius katolo (Herre, 1924)
	Species	Puntius kuchingensis Herre, 1940
	Species	Puntius lanaoensis (Herre, 1924)
	Species	Puntius lateristriga (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1842) – spanner barb
	Species	Puntius leiacanthus (Bleeker, 1860)
	Species	Puntius lindog (Herre, 1924)
	Species	Puntius lineatus (Duncker, 1904)
	Species	Puntius mahecola (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1844)
	Species	Puntius manalak (Herre, 1924)
	Species	Puntius manguaoensis (Day, 1914)
	Species	Puntius manipurensis Menon, Rema Devi and Viswanath, 2000
	Species	Puntius martenstyni Kottelat and Pethiyagoda, 1991
	Species	Puntius meingangbii Arunkumar and Singh, 2003
	Species	Puntius melanampyx (Day, 1865)
	Species	Puntius melanostigma (Day, 1878)
	Species	Puntius microps (Günther, 1868)
	Species	Puntius morehensis Arunkumar and Tombi Singh, 1998
	Species	Puntius mudumalaiensis Menon and Rema Devi, 1992
	Species	Puntius nangalensis Jayaram, 1990
	Species	Puntius narayani (Hora, 1937)
	Species	Puntius nigrofasciatus (Günther, 1868) – black-ruby barb
	Species	Puntius okae Fowler, 1949
	Species	Puntius oligolepis (Bleeker, 1853) – checkered barb
	Species	Puntius ophicephalus (Raj, 1941)
	Species	Puntius ornatus Vishwanath and Laisram, 2004
	Species	Puntius orphoides (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1842)
	Species	Puntius parrah Day, 1865
	Species	Puntius partipentazona (Fowler, 1934)
	Species	Puntius paucimaculatus Wang and Ni, 1982
	Species	Puntius pentazona (Boulenger, 1894) – five-banded barb
	Species	Puntius phutunio (Hamilton, 1822)
	Species	Puntius pleurotaenia Bleeker, 1863
	Species	Puntius puckelli Day, 1868
	Species	Puntius punctatus Day, 1865
	Species	Puntius punjabensis (Day, 1871)
	Species	Puntius puntio (Hamilton, 1822)
	Species	Puntius rhombeus Kottelat, 2000
	Species	Puntius rhomboocellatus Koumans, 1940
	Species	Puntius sahyadriensis Silas, 1953
	Species	Puntius sarana (Hamilton, 1822)
	Species	Puntius schanicus (Boulenger, 1893)
	Species	Puntius sealei (Herre, 1933)
	Species	Puntius semifasciolatus (Günther, 1868) – green barb
	Species	Puntius setnai Chhapgar and Sane, 1992
	Species	Puntius shalynius Yazdani and Talukdar, 1975
	Species	Puntius sharmai Menon and Rema Devi, 1992
	Species	Puntius sirang (Herre, 1932)
	Species	Puntius sophore (Hamilton, 1822) – pool barb
	Species	Puntius sophoroides (Günther, 1868)
	Species	Puntius spilopterus (Fowler, 1934)
	Species	Puntius srilankensis (Senanayake, 1985)
	Species	Puntius stoliczkanus (Day, 1871)
	Species	Puntius takhoaensis Nguyen and Doan, 1969
	Species	Puntius terio (Hamilton, 1822)
	Species	Puntius tetrazona (Bleeker, 1855) – tiger barb
	Species	Puntius thomassi (Day, 1877)
	Species	Puntius ticto (Hamilton, 1822) – two-spot barb
	Species	Puntius titteya Deraniyagala, 1929 – cherry barb
	Species	Puntius trifasciatus Kottelat, 1996
	Species	Puntius tumba (Herre, 1924)
	Species	Puntius vittatus Day, 1865
	Species	Puntius waageni (Day, 1872)
	Species	Puntius yuensis Arunkumar and Singh, 2003

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Wayne C. Starnes
	Notes:	Research Curator of Fishes, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Laboratory, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA
	Reference for:	Puntius

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Catalog of Fishes, 08-Apr-2005, website (version 05-Apr-05)
	Acquired:	2005
	Notes:	http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/
	Reference for:	Puntius

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Puntius

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes
	Publication Date:	2003
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Page(s):
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:	As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998
	Reference for:	Puntius

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N.
	Publication Date:	1990
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Genera of Recent Fishes
	Page(s):	iii + 697
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, CA, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-23-8
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Puntius

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N., ed.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Article/Chapter Title:	Catalog of Fishes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3
	Page(s):	2905
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, California, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-47-5
	Notes:	Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932
	Reference for:	Puntius

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