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Cyprinidae
Linespotted ufipa barb
Enteromius brachygramma
Fish Reaching Five Point Two Centimeters in African Waters
- Tropical
- Upper river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Fusiform
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
SmallLinespotted ufipa barb is known around Africa as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and records give a maximum length of 5.2 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Enteromius
- Maximum length
- 5.2 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Africa: only known from the type locality, a small affluent of the Lukinda in the Lake Mweru system (upper Congo River basin) in Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ref. 2801 , 42540 ). Specimens identified as Barbus sp. aff. brachygramma known from the Lake Rukwa drainage in Tanzania (Ref. 27292 ).
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient
Class
Family
Conservation status
