Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga

Taxonavigation: Cyprinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis/Superclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Series: Otophysi Ordo: Cypriniformes Superfamilia: Cyprinoidea

Familia: Cyprinidae
Subfamilia: Labeoninae
Genus: Hemigrammocapoeta

Species: Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga

Name

Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga Pellegrin, 1927

Syntypes: BMNH 1927.5.7.7 (1); MNHN 1926-0396 (6); MSNM 27 [ex MSNM 4411 and ex MNHN] (1).

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

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

Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga in Catalog of Fishes,
Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2020. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Hemigrammocapoeta culiciphaga in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2020. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2019.

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