Lake Rukwa minnow

Lake Rukwa minnow
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Danionidae
Subfamily:	Chedrinae
Genus:	Raiamas
Species:	R. moorii
Binomial name
Raiamas moorii (Boulenger, 1900) [2]
Synonyms
Barilius mooriiBoulenger, 1900

The Lake Rukwa minnow (Raiamas moorii) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Lake Tanganyika, Lake Kivu and Lake Rukwa in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. ^[2] Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas. ^{[1] [3]}

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870–1947), a British biologist and a Tanganyika expedition leader, who discovered this species. ^[4]

References

1. Natakimazi, G.; Hanssens, M. (2006). "Raiamas moorii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2006: e.T60448A12367900. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60448A12367900.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Raiamas moorii". FishBase . June 2013 version.
3. Lévêque, C. and J. Daget, 1984. Cyprinidae. p. 217-342. In J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse and D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ORSTOM, Paris and MRAC, Tervuren. Vol. 1.
4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family DANIONIDAE: Bleeker 1863 (Danios)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 February 2025.