Alestes stuhlmannii

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Alestes stuhlmannii

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Alestidae
Genus: Alestes
Species:
A. stuhlmannii
Binomial name
Alestes stuhlmannii
Pfeffer, 1896

Alestes stuhlmannii is a species of fish in the family Alestidae. It is endemic to the Ulanga River in Morogoro Region of Tanzania.[2][3]

Named in honor of

zoologist and African explorer, who collected the type specimen in Tanzania.[4]

References

  1. . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ RUBADA, 1981, Rufiji Basin Study Programme. Study of fisheries in the proposed Steiglers gorge reservoir and the Ulanga floodplain. Atkins Land and Water Management, Cambridge, England.
  3. ^ Charlwood, J, D., and Utzinger, J., 1997. Fishery methods and fish diversity in the Ulanga River in south-eastern Tanzania. Afr. J. Hydrobiol. Fish Vol, No 7, p. 55-64.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families DISTICHODONTIDAE, CITHARINIDAE, CRENUCHIDAE, ALESTIDAE and HEPSETIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 September 2021.

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