Enteromius huguenyi
Appearance
Enteromius huguenyi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Barbinae |
Genus: | Enteromius |
Species: | E. huguenyi
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Binomial name | |
Enteromius huguenyi | |
Synonyms | |
Barbus huguenyi Bigorne & Lévêque, 1993 |
Enteromius huguenyi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius.[2]
It lives in freshwater in Guinea and Liberia.[1]
Size
[edit]This species reaches a length of 5.3 cm (2.1 in).[3]
Etymology
[edit]The fish is named in honor of Bernard Hugueny, ecologist and limnologist, at the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris).[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Diallo, I. (2020). "Barbus huguenyi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2020: e.T182715A126380706.
- ^ Bigorne, R. and C. Lévêque, 1993. Description de deux nouveaux Barbus (Cyprinidae) de la région du Mont Nimba en Guinée et au Liberia. Cybium 17(1):63-70.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Enteromius huguenyi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2021.