African Gold Barb Fish
Originally found in Southeast Asia, all of these guys now come from fish farms. Gold barbs originally came from the wild as green barbs. We haven�t seen the wild greens for 2.5 decades.
If you look real close, you can see the tiny barbs that put them in the barb family. The genus name was changed to Capoetes, then Puntius but we still call them �barbs.� They were discovered by someone named Schubert and then someone named Sachs. So you can find them under a variety of genera and species. Just call them gold barbs. Sometimes getting technical just causes confusion.