More info | Plus d'info | Mais info | Fishwatchers: Add your observation | Attach your web site to this page | FishBase

English | Español | Português | Français | Deutsch | Italiano | Nederlands | Chinese      More languages...

Barbatula barbatula in Belarus
Stone loach

Go to Species Summary

Barbatula barbatula   (Linnaeus, 1758)
Family:	Balitoridae (River loaches) , subfamily: Nemacheilinae			picture (Babar_u7.jpg) by Pialek, L.
Order:	Cypriniformes  (carps)
Class:	Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
FishBase name:	Stone loach
Max. size:	21.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 1441); max. published weight: 200 g (Ref. 5504); max. reported age: 7 years
Environment:	demersal; potamodromous; pH range: 7 - 7.69999980926514; dH range: 10 - 15
Climate:	temperate; 18°C; 67°N - 39°N
Global Importance:	fisheries: minor commercial; aquarium: public aquariums; bait: occasionally
Resilience:	Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (tm=2-3)
Distribution:	Eurasia: widely distributed from Ireland (where it was introduced) across Europe (except in the Italian and Iberian peninsula) and Asia to China. Perhaps conspecific with Nemacheilus toni, the Siberian stone loach that ranges from Siberia to Japan (Ref. 4537).
Diagnosis:	Dorsal spines (total): 3-3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 6-8; Anal spines: 3-3; Anal soft rays: 5-6. Body elongated, anteriorly somewhat depressed, posteriorly laterally compressed. Three pairs of mouth barbels. No erectile spine below eye. Posterior margin of caudal fin slightly notched. Caudal fin with 15-17 rays (Ref. 2196).
Biology:	Inhabits shallow, fast flowing creeks with gravel bottom; also in shallow areas of clear lakes (Ref. 556). Feeds on small crustaceans, insect larvae, and benthic invertebrates. Breeds in April-June, in several separate spawning, shedding its dull, white eggs among stones and water plants. Sensitive to pollution and low oxygen levels, therefore, its presence in a river can be taken as an indication of good water quality (Ref. 6111)
Threatened:	, (Ref. 36508)
Dangerous:	harmless
Coordinator:
Main Ref:	Kottelat, M.. 1997. (Ref. 13696)
Update | Add

Belarus country information
Common names:	Goletz		Ref:  Blanc, M., J.-L. Gaudet, P. Banarescu and J.-C. Hureau, 1971
Status:	native		Ref:
Salinity:	freshwater
Uses:	no uses
Country Information:	www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bo.html
Occurrences:	Occurrences    Point map
Main Ref:	Blanc, M., J.-L. Gaudet, P. Banarescu and J.-C. Hureau, 1971
Update

More information:	Countries FAO areas Occurrences Introductions Ecosystem Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Predators Ciguatera Fish loss Common names Synonyms Pictures Sounds Reproduction Maturity Spawning Eggs Egg dev. Larvae Larval dynamics References Growth L-W relationship L-L relationship Length frequencies Recruitment Max. age & size Metabolism Morphology Morphometrics Gill area Brains Vision Collaborators Genetics Allele frequencies Heritability Strains Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Diseases Ecotoxicology Processing Speed Swim. type Stamps
	Note: No data are available if label is black .
Tools:	Biogeographic modelling | Bio-Quiz | E-book | Field guide | Identification keys | Length-frequency Wizard | Life-history tool | Point map |
Internet sources:	BiOSC Point Data | CISTI | Google | GOBASE | GenBank ( genome, nucleotide ) | National databases | PubMed | Scirus | Public aquariums | Tree of Life | Zoological Record Other web sites |
	Note: use the Back button of your browser to return to FishBase.
	Entered:  Reyes, Rodolfo B.

	Ref.:				Glossary
		(e.g. 9948)				(e.g. cephalopods)
ThisFishForum      Comments & Corrections      Sign our Guest Book
Back to Search

CGNET - US

Page created by: Eli, 20.10.03, last modified by Eli, 26.06.07