Biology:Enteromius walkeri

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Enteromius walkeri
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Enteromius
Species:
E. walker
Binomial name
Enteromius walker
(Boulenger, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Barbus walkeri Boulenger 1904

Enteromius walkeri is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius from Ghana and the Ivory Coast where it is threatened by pollution and other activities around mining.[1][2]

Size

This species reaches a length of 10.0 cm (3.9 in).[3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker (1832–1901), a British trader, an explorer, an anthropologist and a natural history collector in West Africa, who collected the holotype specimen.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Dankwa, H. (2020). "Barbus walkeri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2020: e.T182336A134934854. 
  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 and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Enteromius walker" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. "Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE (Small Barbs)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/smiliogastrinae/. 


Wikidata ☰ Q2373200 entry