Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga

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: Labeoninae
Genus: Hemigrammocapoeta

Species: Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga

Name

Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga Pellegrin, 1927

• Syntypes: BMNH 1927.5.7.7 (1); MNHN 1926-0396 (6); MSNM 27 [ex MSNM 4411 and ex MNHN] (1).

Type locality: Adana, Asia Minor [Turkey].

Etymology: From culex (= mosquito), and phaga (= to eat), referring to its proficiency (“d’excellents destructeurs”) at consuming mosquito larvae. (From The ETYFish project)

References

• Pellegrin, J., 1927: Description d'un cyprinidé nouveau d'Asie Mineure. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 52 [1927]: 34–35. Reference page. 

Links

• Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.