Malagarasi sardine

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Malagarasi sardine
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Engraulicypris
Species:
E. spinifer
Binomial name
Engraulicypris spinifer
Synonyms

Mesobola spinifer(Bailey & Matthes, 1971)

The Malagarasi sardine (Engraulicypris spinifer [1] or Mesobola spinifer [2] [3] ) is an East African species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the Malagarasi River in Burundi and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas. It is threatened by habitat loss. [3]

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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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Mesobola spinifer" in FishBase . April 2016 version.
  3. 1 2 Natakimazi, G.; Hanssens, M. (2006). "Mesobola spinifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2006: e.T61272A12456409. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61272A12456409.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.