Labeobarbus codringtonii

Labeobarbus codringtonii

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Cypriniformes Subordo: Cyprinoidei

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Torinae
Genus: Labeobarbus
Species: Labeobarbus codringtonii

Name

Labeobarbus codringtonii (Boulenger, 1908)

• Holotype (unique): BMNH 1908.11.6.23.

Type locality: Zambesi River above Victoria Falls [Zambia/Zimbabwe].

Etymology: in honor of Thomas Codrington, who, while visting his son, Robert Codrington, Administrator of N.W. Rhodesia, “availed himself of the exceptional facilities afforded him to make a very valuable collection of the fishes, which he has presented to the British Museum”. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

• Barbus codringtonii Boulenger, 1908
• Barbus altidorsalis Boulenger, 1908
  • Labeobarbus altidorsalis (Boulenger, 1908)
• Barbus chilotes Boulenger, 1908
• Barbus hypostomatus Pellegrin, 1936

Vernacular names

English: Upper Zambezi Yellowfish

References

• Boulenger, G.A. 1908. Diagnoses of new fishes from the Upper Zambesi. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 8) 2(12): 492–495.BHL Reference page. 
• Vreven, E.J.W.M.N., Musschoot, T., Snoeks, J. & Schliewen, U.K. 2016. The African hexaploid Torini (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae): review of a tumultuous history. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12366 Reference page. 

Links

• Labeobarbus codringtonii in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Labeobarbus codringtonii in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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