the barbels occurring in all sweet-water-types of the tropical, subtropical and restrained areas of the old world is ah-killing, often swarm-forming Friedfishes.
Shape Barbels usually have a stretched, at the side only little compressed body. The mouth is mainly under-continuous until barely endständig and can carry one to two pairs of Barteln and a suction-disk, that are an indication of an usually ground-oriented way of life of these fish. The sheds can vary strongly in the size, the side-line almost always proceeds exactly.
Nutrition Most barbels gründeln after small animals in the mud or grazes water-plants and more solid underground after vegetable and animal grew up. The big types also now and then snatch small fish, nevertheless one cannot call them robbery-fish.
Aquarium fish Many old-established aquarium fish are found exactly among the barbels, to what also sometimes its often beautiful scrutiny, but distinctive simplicity, that good Züchtbarkeit and this contributed normally in the severe and unmitigated available unpretentiousness.
The most known types are:
the Bitterlingsbarbe (bar-bus titteya), the isle-barbel (B). oligolepis, the brass-shiny brass-barbel, B. semifasciolatus, the splendor-barbel, B. conchonius, the red-headed, only 1935 imported purple-head-barbels, B. nigrofasciatus, and that each other similar, vertically striped forms: Four-belt or Sumatra-barbel (B). tetrazona tetrazona, part-belt-barbel, B. tetrazona partipentazona, five-belt-barbel, B. pentazona pentazona, and six-belt-barbel, B. pentazona hexazona.
Further types Our native river-barbel (bar-bus pure-bus) becomes as well up to 90 cm very much bigger than this usually only few centimeters of big growing ornament-barbels. it is an inhabitant of clean flow-waters and is moved very much in effect as such from the contamination of our waters. Today, it is on the red list of the strongly endangered types of animal.
The giant-barbel (Catlocarpio siamensis) from South-Asia is at all the biggest representative of the order carp-fish up to 3 m of length as well.
A deviant one, the suction-barbels of the type Garra have more schmerlenähnliche shape. they possess, however, they can solid-tack themselves a suction-disk, that comes zustatten very much in its natural habitat, fast-flowing mountain-rivers, for them, at stones with it in the strong current.
As with this to this salmon-educational belonging blind persons cave-salmon-educational originated blind types also with the barbels through adaptation to cave-biotopes. Several types developed in both Africa and in Asia independently of each other, like Z. B. the blind cave-barbel (Caecobarbus geertsi) from the Congo-area.
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