Engraulicypris bredoi

Engraulicypris bredoi[1] or Mesobola bredoi[2] is an East African species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Lake Albert in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Engraulicypris bredoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Engraulicypris
Species:
E. bredoi
Binomial name
Engraulicypris bredoi
Poll, 1945
Synonyms

Mesobola bredoi (Poll, 1945)

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 bredoi" in FishBase. April 2016 version.
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