Silver Cyprinid

Silver Cyprinid

Taxobox
name = Silver Cyprinid
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Cypriniformes
familia = Cyprinidae
genus = "Rastrineobola"
species = "R. argentea"
binomial = "Rastrineobola argentea"
binomial_authority = (Pellegrin, 1904)
synonyms = The Silver Cyprinid ("Rastrineobola argentea") is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family, found in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its local names are "omena" (Kenya), "dagaa" (Tanzania) or "mukene" (Uganda).

Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes, namely Lake Victoria. Being a fast-swimming smallish 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.

ource

* Bayona, J.D.R. 2005. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/61257/all Rastrineobola argentea] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.


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