River sardine

The river sardine (Engraulicypris brevianalis[2] or Mesobola brevianalis[3] is an African species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in the Cunene, Okavango, upper Zambezi river systems and east coastal rivers from the Limpopo to the Umfolozi in northern KwaZulu-Natal. It is also known from the middle Luapula in Zambia. Engraulicypris gariepinus is sometimes considered conspecific.

River sardine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Engraulicypris
Species:
E. brevianalis
Binomial name
Engraulicypris brevianalis
Boulenger, 1908
Synonyms

Mesobola brevianalis (Boulenger, 1908)

References
  1. Bills, R., Cambray, J., Kazembe, J., Marshall, B., Moelants, T. & Tweddle, D. 2010. Mesobola brevianalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T63296A12639958. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T63296A12639958.en. Downloaded on 02 November 2017.
  2. Riddin, M.A., Bills, I.R. & Villet, M.H. (2016): Phylogeographic, morphometric and taxonomic re-evaluation of the river sardine, Mesobola brevianalis (Boulenger, 1908) (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Chedrini). ZooKeys, 641: 121–150.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Mesobola brevianalis " in FishBase. April 2016 version.
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