Barbs - Not To Sure Of The Name...

[Bonedaddy]

Right picked these stunning fella`s up at the weekend and forgot to get the name of them - (think it was something like oscillated red barb) but can`t be sure and cannot seem to find any info on them - can anyone out there en-lighten us - thanks...

 

[The-Wolf]

they are puntius rhomboocelleatus
edit for spelling

 

[Lateral Line]

I still hold to the "other" classification which maintains rhobocellatus as a sub-species of B. pentazona. The pentazona group tend to be longer thinner fish then tetrazona and partipentazona which have a deeper body shape.

I think the pentazona group is now...

B. pentazona pentazona
B. pentazona hexazona
B. pentazona foerschi
B. pentazona rhombocellatus

Possibly a tetrazona group or these could be discrete species...

B. tetrazona tetrazona
B. tetrazona partipentazona

... in the absence of genetic studies, it'll be a matter of opinion really.

I used to go with the B. pentazona partipentazona name, but the more specimens I see convince me that this is incorrect and that partipentazona is much closer to tetrazona than pentazona.

Whatever they are called, they are nice looking.

 

[Bonedaddy]

Now i am confused lol. I have never seen them before anywhere. Their lines are like snakeskin and they have a shimmer to them when they swim. Beautiful fish,,

 

[The-Wolf]

Now i am confused

why are you confused?
they are in the species of rhombocellatus
it is just the genus tath has some doubt
it is either in the genus of puntius or in the genus of barbus

LL has further pointed out that they could even be a subspecies of barbus pentazona
thus making them in fact barbus pentazona rhomocellatus

so to sum up
they are one of the following
puntius rhombocellatus, barbus rhombocellatus or barbus pentazona rhombocellatus

clear as crystal to me