see text Luciobarbus is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae.

Its members are found in fresh and brackish waters of southern Europe, northern Africa, the wider Near East, the Aral and Caspian Seas, and rivers associated with these.

[2] The type species is Luciobarbus esocinus, for which the genus was established by Heckel in 1843.

The scientific name essentially means "pike-barbel" (after the northern pike, Esox lucius).

Nonwithstanding the taxonomy and systematics of this ill-defined assemblage, their closest living relative is probably Aulopyge huegelii.