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Enteromius huguenyi

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Species of fish

Enteromius huguenyi
Conservation status

Vulnerable  (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. huguenyi
Binomial name
Enteromius huguenyi
(Bigorne & Lévêque, 1993)
Synonyms

Barbus huguenyi Bigorne & Lévêque, 1993

Enteromius huguenyi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius.

It lives in freshwater in Guinea and Liberia.

Size

This species reaches a length of 5.3 cm (2.1 in).

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Bernard Hugueny, ecologist and limnologist, at the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris).

References

  1. ^ Diallo, I. (2020). "Barbus huguenyi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2020: e.T182715A126380706.
  2. 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.
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Enteromius huguenyi". 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 7 October 2021.
Taxon identifiers
Barbus huguenyi


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