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Barbus schwanenfeldii Bleeker, 1854; Systomus schwanefeldi (Bleeker, 1854); Barbus schwanefeldi var. rubra Vaillant, 1902

Barbonymus: from the generic name Barbus, to which members of this genus were previously assigned, and Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos), meaning ‘anonymous’, since this group of fishes had previously lacked a proper generic name.

schwanefeldii: named for military surgeon H. W. Schwanefeld, who collected the type series.

Order: Cypriniformes Family: Cyprinidae[1][2]

This‚ species‚ is currently accepted to have an enormous distribution that covers much of Southeast Asia including the countries Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia (states of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo), Brunei Darussalam and Indonesia (Sumatra and Kalimantan, Borneo).