Opsaridium
Appearance
Opsaridium | |
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Opsaridium peringueyi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Danioninae |
Genus: | Opsaridium W. K. H. Peters, 1854 |
Type species | |
Leuciscus zambezensis Peters, 1852
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Opsaridium is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Africa. Currently, 12 species are in this genus.
Species
- Opsaridium boweni (Fowler, 1930)
- Opsaridium engrauloides (Nichols, 1923)
- Opsaridium leleupi (Matthes, 1965)
- Opsaridium loveridgii (Norman, 1922)
- Opsaridium maculicauda (Pellegrin, 1926)
- Opsaridium microcephalum (Günther, 1864)
- Opsaridium microlepis (Günther, 1864) (lake salmon)
- Opsaridium peringueyi (Gilchrist & W. W. Thompson, 1913) (southern barred minnow)
- Opsaridium splendens Taverne & De Vos, 1997
- Opsaridium tweddleorum P. H. Skelton, 1996 (dwarf sanjika)
- Opsaridium ubangiense (Pellegrin, 1901)
- Opsaridium zambezense (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (barred minnow)
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Opsaridium". FishBase. August 2011 version.