Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga
Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidei |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Labeoninae
Genus: Hemigrammocapoeta
Species: Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga
Name
[edit]Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga Pellegrin, 1927
Type locality: Adana, Asia Minor [Turkey].
Etymology: From culex (= mosquito), and phaga (= to eat), referring to its proficiency (“d’excellents destructeurs”) at consuming mosquito larvae. (From The ETYFish project)
References
[edit]- Pellegrin, J., 1927: Description d'un cyprinidé nouveau d'Asie Mineure. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 52 [1927]: 34–35. Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
- Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.