A barb is one of various ray-finned fishspecies in a non-phylogenetic group, with members in the familyCyprinidae, and especially the generaBarbus and Puntius, but many others also. They were formerly united with the barbels in the subfamilyBarbinae, but that group is paraphyletic with the Cyprininae. If the Labeoninae are recognized as distinct, many small African "barbs" would probably, however, warrant recognition as a new subfamily.