Carasobarbus is a small genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of ray-finned fishes in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Cyprinidae. Its species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 are found around the Near East

Near East

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 region.

Like many other "barbs", it was long included in Barbus

Barbus

Barbus is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of Barbus is the Common Barbel, first described as Cyprinus barbus and now named Barbus barbus...

. It appears to be a fairly close relative of the typical barbels and relatives – the genus Barbus proper –, but closer still to the large hexaploid species nowadays separated in Labeobarbus

Labeobarbus

Labeobarbus is a mid-sized ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are widely distributed throughout eastern Africa and especially southern Africa, but also in Lake Tana in Ethiopia. A common name, in particular for the southern species, is yellowfish...

. As Barbus is likely to be split up in the near future – to account for the improved phylogenetic knowledge which indicates it is highly paraphyletic in its wide circumscription –, it may be that Carasobarbus and some other closely related "barbs" (e.g. "Barbus" reinii

Barbus reinii

Barbus reinii is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is provisionally retained in Barbus like many others, but this will almost certainly change in the foreseeable future...

) will eventually be included in Labeobarbus to avoid a profusion of very small genera.

Species

Carasobarbus contains the following species:

• Carasobarbus apoensis
  Carasobarbus apoensis
  Carasobarbus apoensis is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Carasobarbus....
  
  (Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977)
• Carasobarbus canis (Valenciennes
  Achille Valenciennes
  Achille Valenciennes was a French zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology...
  
  , 1842)
• Carasobarbus chantrei (Sauvage
  Henri Émile Sauvage
  - Works :Articles in The Popular Science Monthly:* “Amphibious Fishes,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, September 1876* “The Archer-Fishes,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, January 1878* “The Matamata,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16, March 1880...
  
  , 1882)
• Carasobarbus exulatus
  Carasobarbus exulatus
  Carasobarbus exulatus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Carasobarbus....
  
  (Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977)
• Carasobarbus luteus
  Carasobarbus luteus
  Carasobarbus luteus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Carasobarbus....
  
  (Heckel
  Johann Jakob Heckel
  Johann Jakob Heckel was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim.Though not a formally trained zoologist he worked his way up through the ranks to eventually become the director of the Fish Collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna...
  
  , 1843)