Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Cyprininae
Tribus: Smiliogastrini
Genus Enteromius
Species: Enteromius anema

Name

Enteromius anema (Boulenger, 1903)

• Syntypes: BMNH 1907.12.2.1336-37 (2) Luxor, 1907.12.2.1238-43 (6) Fashoda, 1907.12.2.1244-49 (6), 1907.12.2.1250-52 (3), 1907.12.2.1253-54 (2) Gondokoro; MNHN 1907-0200 (2).

Type locality: Nile River between Assuan and Luxor, White Nile, Egypt.

Etymology: a- (= without); nema (= thread), presumably referring to lack of barbels. (From The ETYFish project)

References

• Boulenger, G.A. 1903. Diagnoses of four new species of Barbus from the Nile. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 12(71) (art. 52): 532–533. BHL Reference page. 
• Yang, L., Sado, T., Hirt, M.V., Pasco-Viel, E., Arunachalam, M., Li, J., Wang, X., Freyhof, J., Saitoh, K., Simons, A.M., Miya, M., He, S., & Mayden, R.L. 2015. Phylogeny and polyploidy: resolving the classification of cyprinine fishes (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 85: 97–116. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.01.014 Reference page. 

Links

• Enteromius anema in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Enteromius anema in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022.

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