Opsaridium
| Opsaridium | |
|---|---|
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| Opsaridium peringueyi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Danionidae |
| Subfamily: | Chedrinae |
| Genus: | Opsaridium W. K. H. Peters, 1854[1] |
| Type species | |
| Leuciscus zambezensis Peters, 1852[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Opsaridium is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Danionidae, the danios or danionins. The fishes in this genus are found in Africa.
Species
[edit]Opsaridium contains the following species:[2]
- Opsaridium boweni (Fowler, 1930)
- Opsaridium engrauloides (Nichols, 1923)
- Opsaridium leleupi (Matthes, 1965)
- Opsaridium loveridgii (Norman, 1922)
- Opsaridium maculicauda (Pellegrin, 1926)
- Opsaridium microcephalum (Günther, 1864)
- Opsaridium microlepis (Günther, 1864) (lake salmon)
- Opsaridium peringueyi (Gilchrist & W. W. Thompson, 1913) (southern barred minnow)
- Opsaridium splendens Taverne & De Vos, 1997
- Opsaridium tweddleorum P. H. Skelton, 1996 (dwarf sanjika)
- Opsaridium ubangiense (Pellegrin, 1901)
- Opsaridium zambezense (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (barred minnow)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chedrinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
- ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Opsaridium". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Opsaridium". FishBase. August 2011 version.
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