 The type species scientific name essentially means "pike-like pike-barbel" (after the northern pike, "Esox lucius"), though a more aliteral translation would be "pike-like wolf-barbel".Like many other cyprinids, the present genus was long included in "Barbus".It appears to be a very close relative of the typical barbels – which include that genus type species, "Barbus barbus" –, and may well warrant inclusion in "Barbus".