Barbel steed

The barbel steed (Hemibarbus labeo) is a species of small freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae, the gudgeons.^[2] It is found throughout the Amur basin in eastern Asia to northern Vietnam, Japan and islands of Hainan and Taiwan.

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Barbel steed
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Suborder:	Cyprinoidei
Family:	Gobionidae
Genus:	Hemibarbus
Species:	H. labeo
Binomial name
Hemibarbus labeo (Pallas, 1776)[2]
Synonyms[2]
Cyprinus labeo Pallas, 1776 Gobio barbus Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 Hemibarbus barbus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Barbus schlegelii Günther, 1868 Pseudogobio chaoi Evermann & T.-S. Shaw, 1927 Hemibarbus longianalis Kimura 1934 Acanthogobio oxyrhynchus Nikolskii, 1904

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