''Prolabeops'' is a genus of
cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a Family (biology), family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barb (fish), barbs and barbel (fish), barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the ...
fish
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...
. There are two species in this genus.
Species
* ''
Prolabeops melanhypopterus''
( Pellegrin, 1928)
* ''
Prolabeops nyongensis''
Daget, 1984
References
*
Smiliogastrinae
Cyprinidae genera
Cyprinid fish of Africa
*
Endemic fauna of Cameroon
Taxa named by Leonard Peter Schultz
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