| Mastacembelus cunningtoni | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Synbranchiformes |
| Family: | Mastacembelidae |
| Genus: | Mastacembelus |
| Species: | M. cunningtoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Mastacembelus cunningtoni Boulenger, 1906 | |
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Mastacembelus cunningtoni is a species of fish in the family Mastacembelidae. It is endemic to the Lake Tanganyika basin, including the Lakes outflow, the Lukuga River as far as the Kisimba-Kilia rapids. It occurs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.[2] The specific name of this fish honours the British zoologist and anthropologist William Alfred Cunnington (1877-1958), leaderof the expedition to Lake Tanganyika which collected the type.[3]
References
- ^ Bigirimana, C. & Vreven, E. (2006). "Mastacembelus cunningtoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60388A12348700. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60388A12348700.en.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Mastacembelus cunningtoni" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (17 June 2019). "Order SYNBRANCHIFORMES: Families SYNBRANCHIDAE, CHAUDHURIIDAE, MASTACEMBELIDAE and INDOSTOMIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 November 2019.