Spottail barb

Spottail barb
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Barbinae
Genus:	Enteromius
Species:	E. afrovernayi
Binomial name
	Enteromius afrovernayi; Nichols & Boulton (fi), 1927
Synonyms
	Barbus vernayi Nichols & Boulton, 1927 ; Nichols & Boulton, 1927 Barbus afrovernayi;

Short description: Species of fish

Spottail barb (Enteromius afrovernayi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius.^[2] It has a wide distribution in western central Africa and is found from the Democratic Republic of Congo south through Angola, Zambia northern Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.^[1]

The fish is named in honor of Arthur S. Vernay (1877–1960), an art and antiques dealer, who as a big game hunter and naturalist-explorer, funded and led an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the African country of Angola.^[3]

Footnotes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Marshall, B.; Moelants, T.; Tweddle, D. (2018). "Enteromius afrovernayi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T63246A126325133. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T63246A126325133.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/63246/126325133. Retrieved 20 November 2021. |date= / |doi= mismatch
↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Enteromius afrovernayi" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
↑ "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/cypriniformes9/.

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[iucn_status_20_November_2021-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Marshall, B.; Moelants, T.; Tweddle, D. (2018). "Enteromius afrovernayi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T63246A126325133. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T63246A126325133.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/63246/126325133. Retrieved 20 November 2021. |date= / |doi= mismatch

[2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Enteromius afrovernayi" in FishBase. April 2006 version.

[ETYFish-3] "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/cypriniformes9/.

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Spottail barb
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Barbinae
Genus:	Enteromius
Species:	E. afrovernayi
Binomial name
*Enteromius afrovernayi* Nichols & Boulton (fi), 1927
Synonyms
Barbus vernayi Nichols & Boulton, 1927 Nichols & Boulton, 1927 Barbus afrovernayi

Spottail barb

Topic: Biology

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