Biology:Opsaridium
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Short description: Genus of fishes
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Scientific classification 
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| 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 and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Opsaridium in FishBase. August 2011 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q2704915 entry
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