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Inconspicuous barb

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ1908843 ↗
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The inconspicuous barb (Enteromius innocens), sometimes misspelled inconspicious barb, is a species of cyprinid fish. It is found in Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas.

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This entry incorporates text from “Inconspicuous barb” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.