Alestes stuhlmannii

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Alestes stuhlmannii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Alestidae
Genus: Alestes
Species:
A. stuhlmannii
Binomial name
Alestes stuhlmannii
Pfeffer, 1896

Alestes stuhlmannii is a species of fish in the family Alestidae. It is endemic to the Ulanga River in Morogoro Region of Tanzania. [2] [3]

Named in honor of Franz Stuhlmann (1863-1928), a German zoologist and African explorer, who collected the type specimen in Tanzania. [4]

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References

  1. Hanssens, M.; Snoeks, J. (2010). "Alestes stuhlmannii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010: e.T61242A12452794. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T61242A12452794.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. RUBADA, 1981, Rufiji Basin Study Programme. Study of fisheries in the proposed Steiglers gorge reservoir and the Ulanga floodplain. Atkins Land and Water Management, Cambridge, England.
  3. Charlwood, J, D., and Utzinger, J., 1997. Fishery methods and fish diversity in the Ulanga River in south-eastern Tanzania. Afr. J. Hydrobiol. Fish Vol, No 7, p. 55-64.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families DISTICHODONTIDAE, CITHARINIDAE, CRENUCHIDAE, ALESTIDAE and HEPSETIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 September 2021.