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(Redirected from Barbus afrovernayi) Species of fish

Spottail barb
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: Smiliogastrinae
Genus: Enteromius
Species: E. afrovernayi
Binomial name
Enteromius afrovernayi
Nichols & Boulton (fi), 1927
Synonyms
  • Barbus vernayi Nichols & Boulton, 1927
  • Barbus afrovernayi Nichols & Boulton, 1927

Spottail barb (Enteromius afrovernayi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius. It has a wide distribution in western central Africa and is found from the Democratic Republic of Congo south through Angola, Zambia northern Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

The fish is named in honor of Arthur S. Vernay (1877–1960), an art and antiques dealer, who as a big game hunter and naturalist-explorer, funded and led an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the African country of Angola.


Footnotes

  1. ^ Marshall, B.; Moelants, T.; Tweddle, D. (2018) . "Enteromius afrovernayi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T63246A126325133. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T63246A126325133.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Enteromius afrovernayi". FishBase.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (27 December 2024). "Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE Bleeker 1863 (Small Barbs)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
Taxon identifiers
Barbus afrovernayi


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