Silver cyprinid

Silver cyprinid
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Rastrineobola Fowler, 1936
Species:	R. argentea
Binomial name
Rastrineobola argentea (Pellegrin, 1904)

The silver cyprinid, Rastrineobola argentea, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, the only member of the genus Rastrineobola. It is found in the Lake Victoria of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its local names are omena (Kenya), dagaa (Tanzania) and mukene (Uganda).

Being a fast-swimming rather small fish of the open waters, it has been better able to withstand the ecological upheaval caused mainly by the introduced predator Lates niloticus (Nile perch) than most other local species. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Rastrineobola argentea" in FishBase. August 2011 version.
• Bayona, J.D.R. 2005. Rastrineobola argentea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.

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