Enteromius bigornei
| Enteromius bigornei | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Barbinae |
| Genus: | Enteromius |
| Species: | E. bigornei
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| Binomial name | |
| Enteromius bigornei | |
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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.[1][2]
Size
[edit]This species reaches a length of 11.4 cm (4.5 in).[3]
Etymology
[edit]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).[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Diallo, I. (2020). "Barbus bigornei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2020:e.T182041A126340854.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Enteromius bigornei". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ 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.
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