Enteromius walkeri

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Enteromius walkeri
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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 walkeriBoulenger 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]

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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]

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References

  1. 1 2 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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Enteromius walker" in FishBase . February 2015 version.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE (Small Barbs)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 22 April 2023.