Lake Rukwa minnow
| Lake Rukwa minnow | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Danionidae |
| Subfamily: | Chedrinae |
| Genus: | Raiamas |
| Species: | R. moorii |
| Binomial name | |
| Raiamas moorii | |
| Synonyms | |
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The Lake Rukwa minnow (Raiamas moorii) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Lake Tanganyika, Lake Kivu and Lake Rukwa in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas.[1][3]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870–1947), a British biologist and a Tanganyika expedition leader, who discovered this species. [4]
References
- ^ a b Natakimazi, G.; Hanssens, M. (2006). "Raiamas moorii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60448A12367900. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60448A12367900.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Raiamas moorii". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Lévêque, C. and J. Daget, 1984. Cyprinidae. p. 217-342. In J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse and D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ORSTOM, Paris and MRAC, Tervuren. Vol. 1.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family DANIONIDAE: Bleeker 1863 (Danios)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 February 2025.