Ptychobarbus


Ptychobarbus is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in rivers, streams and lakes in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau of China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, extending into the highlands of Afghanistan. They reach up to in weight and about in total length. They mostly feed on benthic invertebrates, but will also take planktonic organisms, aquatic plants and algae.
Ptychobarbus has been a part of the schizothoracines, however, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes classifies this genus in the subfamily Schizopygopsinae.

Species

Pytochobarbus contains the following species:Ptychobarbus chungtienensis Ptychobarbus conirostris Steindachner, 1866 Ptychobarbus dipogon Ptychobarbus kaznakovi A. M. Nikolskii, 1903Ptychobarbus leptosomus C. G. Zhang, Y. H. Zhao & C. Y. Niu, 2019