Engraulicypris bredoi

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Engraulicypris bredoi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Engraulicypris
Species:
E. bredoi
Binomial name
Engraulicypris bredoi
Poll, 1945
Synonyms

Mesobola bredoi(Poll, 1945)

Engraulicypris bredoi [1] or Mesobola bredoi [2] is an East African species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Lake Albert in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Freshwater fish fish that live all or much of their lives in freshwater

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Cyprinidae family of fishes

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Lake Albert (Africa) lake in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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References

  1. Riddin, M.A., Bills, I.R. & Villet, M.H. (2016): Phylogeographic, morphometric and taxonomic re-evaluation of the river sardine, Mesobola brevianalis (Boulenger, 1908) (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Chedrini). ZooKeys, 641: 121–150.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Mesobola bredoi" in FishBase . April 2016 version.