Cyprinidae

Iberian Barbel

Luciobarbus bocagei

Eighty Centimeters Carp of European Waters

• Temperate
• Regional distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Europe
• Fusiform
• Large
• Temperate fish

Luciobarbus bocagei is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. Its scientific name honours the Portuguese zoologist and politician Jose Vicente Barboza du Bocage. It is here placed in Luciobarbus following the IUCN, but that genus is very closely related to the other typical barbels and perhaps better considered a mere subgenus of Barbus.