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Description. The tiger barb can grow to about 7–10 centimeters (2.8–3.9 inches) long and 3–4 centimeters (1.2–1.6 inches) wide, although they are often smaller when kept in captivity. Some can grow to around 13 centimeters as well. Native fish are silver to brownish yellow with four vertical black stripes and red fins and snout.
G. Cuvier, 1831. Pterophyllum is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae known to most aquarists as angelfish. All Pterophyllum species originate from the Amazon Basin, Orinoco Basin and various rivers in the Guiana Shield in tropical South America. The three species of Pterophyllum are unusually shaped for cichlids being ...
Bigspot barb, Duncker's barb: Barbodes dunckeri: 13 cm (5.1 in) 72 - 85 °F (22 - 29 °C) 6 - 7 Black ruby barb: Pethia nigrofasciatus: 6.5 cm (2.6 in) Cherry barb: Puntius titteya: 4.8 cm (1.9 in) Denison's barb, red line torpedo barb: Sahyadria denisonii: 15 cm (5.9 in) Drape fin barb: Oreichthys crenuchoides: 4.5 cm (1.8 in) Gold barb ...
Puntigrus partipentazona, [2] the Dwarf Tiger Barb, is a species of cyprinid fish native to Southeast Asia where it is found in the Mekong, Mae Klong, and Chao Phraya basins of Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and coastal streams of southeast Thailand and Cambodia where it occurs in streams and impoundments with dense weed growth.
Desmopuntius hexazona (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1912) (Six-banded tiger barb) Desmopuntius johorensis (Duncker, 1904) (Striped barb) Desmopuntius pentazona (Boulenger, 1894) (Fiveband barb) Desmopuntius rhomboocellatus (Koumans, 1940) (Snakeskin barb) Desmopuntius trifasciatus (Kottelat, 1996)
In the aquarium. The rosy barb is an active, peaceful species well-suited for a community aquarium. It is considered one of the hardiest barbs, undemanding and beautiful, and most impressively colored during the mating period. It can be kept together with other small fish but can be aggressive toward other fish and nip their fins.
A typical barb (Odessa barb, Puntius sp. A barb is one of various ray-finned fish species in a non- phylogenetic group, with members in the family Cyprinidae, and especially the genera Barbus and Puntius, but many others also. They were formerly united with the barbels in the subfamily Barbinae but that group is paraphyletic with the Cyprininae.
The six-banded tiger barb (Desmopuntius hexazona) is a Southeast Asian species of cyprinid fish native to blackwater streams, peat swamps and other freshwater habitats with little movement in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. [1] [2] Although there are reports from the Mekong basin, [3] this is generally consider to be outside the range ...