Spottail barb
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Species of fish
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Barbinae |
| Genus: | Enteromius |
| Species: | E. afrovernayi
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| Binomial name | |
| Enteromius afrovernayi Nichols & Boulton (fi), 1927
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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.
- ↑ 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/.
Wikidata ☰ Q1429560 entry
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