Alestes stuhlmannii is a species of fish in the family Alestidae. It is endemic to the Ulanga River in Morogoro Region of Tanzania.[2][3]
| Alestes stuhlmannii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Alestidae |
| Genus: | Alestes |
| Species: | A. stuhlmannii
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| Binomial name | |
| Alestes stuhlmannii Pfeffer, 1896
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Named in honor of Franz Stuhlmann (1863-1928), a German zoologist and African explorer, who collected the type specimen in Tanzania.[4]
References
edit- ^ Hanssens, M.; Snoeks, J. (2010). "Alestes stuhlmannii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T61242A12452794. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T61242A12452794.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ RUBADA, 1981, Rufiji Basin Study Programme. Study of fisheries in the proposed Steiglers gorge reservoir and the Ulanga floodplain. Atkins Land and Water Management, Cambridge, England.
- ^ Charlwood, J, D., and Utzinger, J., 1997. Fishery methods and fish diversity in the Ulanga River in south-eastern Tanzania. Afr. J. Hydrobiol. Fish Vol, No 7, p. 55-64.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families DISTICHODONTIDAE, CITHARINIDAE, CRENUCHIDAE, ALESTIDAE and HEPSETIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
External links
edit- Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. Alestes stuhlmannii. FishBase. 2015.
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