Enteromius bigornei
Enteromius bigornei is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius, it is only found in Little Scarcies basin in Sierra Leone, western Côte d'Ivoire, and eastern Liberia.[1]
| Enteromius bigornei | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Barbinae |
| Genus: | Enteromius |
| Species: | E. bigornei |
| Binomial name | |
| Enteromius bigornei (Lévêque, Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1988) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Barbus bigornei Lévêque, Teugels & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1988 | |
The fish is named in honor of Rémy Bigorne (b. 1954), an ichthyologist, of ORSTOM (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d’Outre-Mer).[2]
Footnotes
- Diallo, I. (2020). "Barbus bigornei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2020:e.T182041A126340854.
- 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.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Enteromius bigornei" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
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