Enteromius stigmatopygus

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 stigmatopygus

Name

Enteromius stigmatopygus (Boulenger, 1903)

• Syntypes: BMNH 1907.12.2.1355-1360 (orig. 7); MNHN 1907-0201 (2).

Type locality: White Nile River, Sudan.

Etymology: stigmatus (= marked); pygus (= rump or buttock), presumably referring to small round black spot at base of anal fin. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Barbus stigmatopygus Boulenger, 1903
  • Labeobarbus stigmatopygus (Boulenger, 1903)
• Barbus miolepis Boulenger, 1903
• Barbus werneri Boulenger, 1905
• Barbus (Nicholsopuntius) gourmansis Pellegrin, 1933
• Barbus karoualensis Blache & Miton, 1960
• Barbus alberti Poll, 1939

References

• Boulenger, G.A. 1903. Diagnoses of four new species of Barbus from the Nile. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 12(71) (art. 52): 532–533. BHL 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 stigmatopygus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Enteromius stigmatopygus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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