Spottail barb

Short description: Species of fish

Spottail barb

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
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 (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. ↑ 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.
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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