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Species of fish

Ningu
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Labeoninae
Genus: Labeo
Species: L. victorianus
Binomial name
Labeo victorianus
Boulenger, 1901

The ningu (Labeo victorianus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in the Lake Victoria basin in Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas. It is threatened by a loss of habitat due to pollution, siltation and drainage as agriculture expands in the Lake Victoria basin, by overfishing on their breeding migrations and by introduced alien fish.

References

  1. ^ FishBase team RMCA.; Geelhand, D. (2016). "Labeo victorianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T60318A47182908. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T60318A47182908.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. Rainer Froese; Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). "Labeo victorianus Boulenger, 1901 Ningu". Fishbase. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
Taxon identifiers
Labeo victorianus


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