Steatocranus bleheri

Steatocranus bleheri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Genus:	Steatocranus
Species:	S. bleheri
Binomial name
	Steatocranus bleheri; M. K. Meyer, 1993

Steatocranus bleheri is species of cichlid only found in the Kafubu River system, which is part of the Luapula drainage in the upper Congo River basin, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa.[1] This species can reach a length of 6.8 centimetres (2.7 in) TL.[2]

Etymology

The cichlid is named in honor of explorer and ornamental-fish wholesaler Heiko Bleher (b. 1944), who collected the type specimen.[3]

References

Meyer, M.K., 1993. Description of a new Steatocranus species from Luapula River system, Zaire (Teleostei, Perciformes: Cichlidae). Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden 47(9):113-120.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Steatocranus bleheri" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (p-y)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 March 2022.

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[1] Meyer, M.K., 1993. Description of a new Steatocranus species from Luapula River system, Zaire (Teleostei, Perciformes: Cichlidae). Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden 47(9):113-120.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Steatocranus bleheri" in FishBase. April 2013 version.

[ETYFish-3] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (p-y)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 March 2022.