Doumea thysi
Doumea thysi is a species of loach catfish found in Nigeria where it is found in the Cross River and Cameroon where it is found in that country's section of the Cross River and Ndian Department. It reaches a length of 6.5 cm.[2]
| Doumea thysi | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Amphiliidae |
| Genus: | Doumea |
| Species: | D. thysi |
| Binomial name | |
| Doumea thysi P. H. Skelton, 1989 | |
the fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Dirk Thys van den Audenaerde (b. 1934) who is the Director at the Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (Tervuren, Belgium), where the type specimen is housed.[3]
References
- Olaosebikan, B.D.; Lalèyè, P. (2020). "Doumea thysi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T182071A134747018. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T182071A134747018.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- "Doumea thysi". Fish Base.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families AKYSIDAE, AMBLYCIPITIDAE, SISORIDAE and AMPHILIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Doumea thysi" in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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