Enteromius huguenyi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius.[2]

Enteromius huguenyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Enteromius
Species:
E. huguenyi
Binomial name
Enteromius huguenyi
(Bigorne & Lévêque, 1993)
Synonyms

Barbus huguenyi Bigorne & Lévêque, 1993

It lives in freshwater in Guinea and Liberia.[1]

Size

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This species reaches a length of 5.3 cm (2.1 in).[3]

Etymology

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The fish is named in honor of Bernard Hugueny, ecologist and limnologist, at the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris).[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Diallo, I. (2020). "Barbus huguenyi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2020: e.T182715A126380706.
  2. ^ Bigorne, R. and C. Lévêque, 1993. Description de deux nouveaux Barbus (Cyprinidae) de la région du Mont Nimba en Guinée et au Liberia. Cybium 17(1):63-70.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Enteromius huguenyi". FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2021.