Lake Rukwa minnow

The Lake Rukwa minnow (Raiamas moorii) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Lake Tanganyika, Lake Kivu and Lake Rukwa in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas.[1]

Lake Rukwa minnow
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Danioninae
Genus: Raiamas
Species:
R. moorii
Binomial name
Raiamas moorii
(Boulenger, 1900)[2]
Synonyms
  • Barilius moorii Boulenger, 1900

References
  1. Natakimazi, G. & Hanssens, M. (2005). "Raiamas moorii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2005. Retrieved 27 July 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Raiamas moorii" in FishBase. June 2013 version.


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