Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Brycinus macrolepidotus Valenciennes, 1850 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Alestes macrolepiditus (Valenciennes, 1850) (synonym)

Alestes macrolepidotus (Valenciennes, 1850) (synonym)

Alestes rutilus Boulenger, 1916 (synonym)

Common names:

大鱗非洲脂鯉 Mandarin Chinese

大鳞非洲脂鲤 Mandarin Chinese

紅鮭脂鯉 Mandarin Chinese

红鲑脂鲤 Mandarin Chinese

Adjamdjer Kim

Adjamdjor Kim

Agamikak Shilluk

Alerio Dinka, Northeastern

Anto Hausa

Barga Hausa

Characin English

Cin Dinka, Northeastern

Dabé Wolof

Dzaflafa Ewe

Dzaplapa Adangme, Ga

Elei Ijo

Farabanin Jula

Gamle Kim

Gbagara Zande

Großschuppiger Brycinus German

Kadjianre Kim

Kakara Hausa

Kawara safsaf Arabic

Kawwara safsaf Arabic

Large scaled robber English

Leggani Nuer

Melek Dinka, Northeastern

Ruohotetra Finnish

Silversides English

Suurisuomualesti Finnish

Tatare Mòoré

True big-scale tetra English

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Characiformes

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Family Alestidae

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Genus Brycinus

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Distribution:

Africa: Inter-tropical but absent in the Gambia basin. Senegal, Niger, Chad, Volta and basins from Sierra Leone to Cameroon; Sudan border, upper Nile, Albert Nile and Murchison Nile, Lake Albert, Victoria, Omo and Lake Turkana, Congo basin (Ref. 5331).; Africa-Inland Waters; Agnébi; Algeria; Angola; Bandama River; Benin; Benue River; Bia River; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Cavally River; Central African Republic; Chad; Comoé River; Congo, Dem. Rep. of the; Congo, Republic of; Corubal; Côte d'Ivoire; Cross River; Ébrié Lagoon; Egypt; Ethiopia; Ethiopian; Fatala; Gabon; Géba; Ghana; Great Scarcies; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kainji Lake; Kenya; Kogon; Konkouré; Lake Chad/Chari River; Lake Turkana; Lake Victoria; Liberia; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Little Scarcies; Loffa; Mali; Mano River; Mauritania; Moa; Mono River; Mozambique; Niger; Nigeria; Nile; Nipoué; Ogun; Ouémé River; Pra River; Rokel River; Rwanda; Saint John; Saint Paul; Sanaga; Sassandra River; Senegal; Sewa River; Sierra Leone; Somalia; Sudan; Tano; Tanzania, United Rep. of; Togo; Uganda; Volta; Zaïre; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Additional data:

Year from CoF (Eschmeyer, Apr. 2006: Ref. 56787).

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 28-Aug-1994

Online resource:

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


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:dc4550d6-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2009


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