Spottail barb

Spottail barb (Enteromius afrovernayi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius.[2] It has a wide distribution in western central Africa and is found from the Democratic Republic of Congo south through Angola, Zambia northern Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.[1]

Spottail barb
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Barbinae
Genus: Enteromius
Species:
E. afrovernayi
Binomial name
Enteromius afrovernayi
Nichols & Boulton (fi), 1927
Synonyms
  • Barbus vernayi Nichols & Boulton, 1927
  • Barbus afrovernayi Nichols & Boulton, 1927

The fish is named in honor of Arthur S. Vernay (1877–1960), an art and antiques dealer, who as a big game hunter and naturalist-explorer, funded and led an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the African country of Angola.[3]


Footnotes
  1. Marshall, B.; Moelants, T.; Tweddle, D. (2018). "Enteromius afrovernayi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T63246A126325133. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T63246A126325133.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Enteromius afrovernayi" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 October 2021.


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