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Pseudobarbus Afer
The Eastern Cape redfin (''Pseudobarbus afer'') is an African freshwater fish species in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae, this appears to be a species complex rather than a single species. It is endemism, endemic to the Sundays River, Sundays, Swartkops River, Swartkops and Baakens River, Baakens river systems of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, the fish in other rivers in the region have been suggested to belong to different species with four different lineages recognised, a forest lineage which appears to be more closely related to ''Pseudobarbus phlegethon'' of the Olifants River (Western Cape), Olifants River than the other lineages traditionally classified within ''P. afer'', the other lineages are the "St Francis" lineage which occurs in the rivers flowing into St Francis Bay and has been given the name ''Pseudobarbus swartzi'', the Krom lineage ''Pseudobarbus senticeps'' from the Krom River system and the "Mandela" lineage ''Pseudobarbus afer'' ''sensu stricto''. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 in Koldenbüttel – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudobarbus Swartzi
''Pseudobarbus'' is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. The type species is Burchell's redfin (''P. burchelli''). The scientific name is derived from the Ancient Greek ''pseudes'' ("false") and the Latin word ''barbus'' ("beard", in reference to the barbels of barbs). This genus contains some (and might contain all) of the South African redfins. It was originally proposed as a subgenus, but has since been found worthy of recognition as a full genus. This genus is restricted to southern Africa; all of its species were formerly placed in '' Barbus'', the genus of typical barbels and their relatives. One taxon was originally described as ''P. leonhardi'' – this, however, was a European fish for which the genus was erroneously proposed anew. It has since turned out to be nothing other than the barbel '' B. peloponnesius''.FishBase 009/ref> Species and systematics ''Pseudobarbus'' was placed in the paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
