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Enteromius bigornei (Lévêque, Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde 1988)

Enteromius bigornei

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Enteromius bigornei is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius, it is only found in Little Scarcies basin in Sierra Leone, western Côte d'Ivoire, and eastern Liberia.[1][2]

Size

This species reaches a length of 11.4 cm (4.5 in).[3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Rémy Bigorne (b. 1954), an ichthyologist, of ORSTOM (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d’Outre-Mer).[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Diallo, I. (2020). "Barbus bigornei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2020:e.T182041A126340854.
  2. ^ Teugels, G.G., C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and K. Traoré, 1988. État des connaissances sur la faune ichtyologique des bassins côtiers de Côte d'Ivoire et de l'ouest du Ghana. Rev. Hydrobiol. Trop. 21(3):221-237.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Enteromius bigornei" in 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. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
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Enteromius bigornei: Brief Summary

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Enteromius bigornei is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius, it is only found in Little Scarcies basin in Sierra Leone, western Côte d'Ivoire, and eastern Liberia.

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