Enteromius kerstenii

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Smiliogastrinae
Genus Enteromius
Species: Enteromius kerstenii

Name

Enteromius kerstenii (Peters, 1868)

Lectotype: ZMB 6818 [or 6848]. Lectotype designated by Greenwood 1982. Paralectotypes: ZMB 32378 [ex 6848] (2).

Type locality: On the route between the coast opposite Zanzibar and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, East Africa.

Etymology: in honor of Otto Kersten (1839–1900), botanist and early explorer of Mt. Kilimanjaro, who sent a small collection of fishes to Peters, including type of this one. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Barbus kerstenii Peters, 1868
  • Labeobarbus kerstenii (Peters, 1868)
• Barbus salmo Pfeffer, 1896
• Barbus nigrolinea Pfeffer, 1889
• Barbus lumiensis Boulenger, 1903
• Barbus minchini Boulenger, 1906
• Barbus akeleyi Hubbs, 1918
• Barbus tangandensis Jubb, 1954

References

• Peters, W. 1868. Ueber eine von dem Baron Carl von der Decken entdeckte neue Gattung von Welsen, Chiloglanis deckenii, und einige andere Süsswasserfische aus Ostafrika. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868: 598–602, Pl. 2. Reference page. 
• Greenwood, P.H. 1962. A revision of certain Barbus (Pisces, Cyprinidae) from east, central and south Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 8(4): 151–208. Reference page. 
• Yang, L., Sado, T., Hirt, M.V., Pasco-Viel, E., Arunachalam, M., Li, J., Wang, X., Freyhof, J., Saitoh, K., Simons, A.M., Miya, M., He, S., & Mayden, R.L. 2015. Phylogeny and polyploidy: resolving the classification of cyprinine fishes (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 85: 97–116. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.01.014 Reference page. 

Links

• Enteromius kerstenii in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Enteromius kerstenii in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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