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Enteromius bigornei

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Species of fish

Enteromius bigornei
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Enteromius
Species: E. bigornei
Binomial name
Enteromius bigornei
(Lévêque, Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1988)
Synonyms

Barbus bigornei Lévêque, Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1988

Enteromius bigornei is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius, it is only found in Little Scarcies basin in Sierra Leone, western Côte d'Ivoire, and eastern Liberia.

Size

This species reaches a length of 11.4 cm (4.5 in).

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Rémy Bigorne (b. 1954), an ichthyologist, of ORSTOM (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d’Outre-Mer).

References

  1. ^ Diallo, I. (2020). "Barbus bigornei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2020:e.T182041A126340854.
  2. Teugels, G.G., C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and K. Traoré, 1988. État des connaissances sur la faune ichtyologique des bassins côtiers de Côte d'Ivoire et de l'ouest du Ghana. Rev. Hydrobiol. Trop. 21(3):221-237.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Enteromius bigornei". FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. 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 6 October 2021.
Taxon identifiers
Barbus bigornei


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