Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Alestes dentex (Linnaeus, 1758) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Alestes dentex dentex (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Alestes dentex subsp. sethente Valenciennes, 1850 (synonym)

Alestes hasselquisti (Cuvier, 1817) (synonym)

Alestes sethente Valenciennes, 1850 (synonym)

Characinus niloticus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809 (synonym)

Cyprinus dentex Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)

Myletes dentex (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Myletes hasselquistii Cuvier, 1817 (synonym)

Salmo dentex Hasselquist, 1762 (ambiguous synonym)

Salmo niloticus (non Hasselquist, 1762) (misapplied name)

Common names:

Alerio Dinka, Northeastern

Arefe Yoruba

Asenti Ewe

Asentiwe Ewe

Asotiklapa Ewe

Basongirino Zande

Characin English

Cien Nuer

Cin Dinka, Northeastern

Delete Other

Dorobela Turkana

Egbagi Kanuri, Nupe

Girfiga Other

Hammasalesti Finnish

Juse Other

Kawara baladi Arabic

Kawwara baladi Arabic

Kaya Creole, French, Japanese, Kanuri

Kodo Other, Shilluk

Lelete Other

Mazari Hausa

Mimbre Mòoré

Nile robber English

Nyele El Molo

Oza Ijo

Sèlinthe Wolof

Shemani Hausa

Silversides English

Tewe Adangme, Ga

Vaï Fijian, Kim

Van Kim

Vore Kim

Classification:

Animalia

LSID

Phylum Chordata

LSID

Class Actinopterygii

LSID

Order Characiformes

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Family Alestidae

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Genus Alestes

LSID

Distribution:

Volta; Uganda; Sudan; Senegal; Sanaga; Nile; Nigeria; Niger; Mauritania; Mali; Lake Turkana; Lake Chad/Chari River; Kenya; Kainji Lake; Guinea; Ghana; Gambia; Ethiopian; Ethiopia; Egypt; Congo, Dem. Rep. of the; Chad; Cameroon; Burkina Faso; Benue River; Africa-Inland Waters; Africa: Chad, Niger, Volta, Gambia, Senegal, Nile, Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, Lake Omo, Lake Turkana. Also known from the White Nile, Murchinson Nile, and Blue Nile, (Ref. 5331).

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 28-Jan-1999

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:4033f0ae-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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