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Diagnostic Description

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Diagnosis: last simple dorsal-fin ray denticulate on hind margin; gape of mouth extending beyond vertical line from anterior eye margin; scale formula 4.5-5.5/28-32/4.5; 2.5-3 scales between lateral line and pelvic-fin base; 12-14 scales around caudal peduncle; 7 branched dorsal fin rays; anterior barbel reaching to, or extending beyond, posterior half of eye; posterior barbel extending beyond hind margin of eye; lateral line complete and weakly depressed below dorsal fin; maximum reported size 71 mm SL (Ref. 2940, 81282). Description: medium-sized species, convex dorsal profile; mouth subterminal, its angle located below anterior third of eye; cephalic pores indistinct; two pairs of rather long barbels; outer margin dorsal fin straight, last simple dorsal-fin ray partly ossified and denticulate distally on behind margin; gill rakers short; D:III,7; A:III,5; P:13-15; V:I,7-8 (Ref. 2940, 81282)Coloration: body yellowish in life, with dorsal- and caudal-fin lobes marked with red in adults, other fins colorless; longitudinal series of large, black spots above lateral line, varying in number from 2 to 8, and not always following same pattern on both sides; spots located before level of dorsal-fin origin and on caudal peduncle seem to be permanent (Ref. 2940, 81282).
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Morphology

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Analsoft rays: 8
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Biology

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Affinities: close to B. guineensis (sympatric) and B. dialonensis (Ref. 2940). Maximum TL was recorded at 8.3 cm (Ref. 2801).
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Enteromius cadenati

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Enteromius cadenati is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius which is endemic to the Konkouré basin in Guinea.[1][2]

Size

This species reaches a length of 7.1 cm (2.8 in).[3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Jean Cadenat (1908-1992), the Director of the Marine Biological Section of the Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, who collected one specimen of the fish in 1947.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b P. Lalèyè (2010). "Barbus cadenati". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2010: e.T182296A7852906. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T182296A7852906.en.
  2. ^ Lévêque, C., 1990. Cyprinidae. p. 269-361. In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douces et saumâtres d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Tome I. Coll. Faune Tropicale n° XXVIII. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, and O.R.S.T.O.M., Paris, 384 p.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Enteromius cadenati" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily SMILIOGASTRINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
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Enteromius cadenati: Brief Summary

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Enteromius cadenati is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius which is endemic to the Konkouré basin in Guinea.

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