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Alestidae
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African tetras (family Alestidae, formerly spelled Alestiidae) are a group of characiform fish found exclusively in Africa. This family contains about 18 genera and 119 species. Among the best known members are the Congo tetra and African tigerfish; both are kept in aquaria, and tigerfish are utilized for food and as gamefish.
Species
African tetras
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCharaciformes
- FamilyAlestidae
屬 詳見內文 鮭脂鯉科（學名：Alestidae）又稱非洲脂鯉科，是脂鯉目脂鯉亞目下的一科魚類，只分佈在非洲。其下包含了約18屬及110個物種，最為著名的是斷線脂鯉及狗脂鯉屬。 目录 1 分類 1.1 鮭脂鯉屬 (Alestes) 1.2 非洲鮭鯉屬 (Alestopetersius) 1.3 紅眼脂鯉屬 (Arnoldichthys) 1.4 深埃脂鯉屬 (深埃鲑脂鯉屬)(Bathyaethiops) 1.5 短脂鯉屬 (短鲑脂鲤属)(Brachypetersius) 1.6 非洲脂鯉屬 (Brycinus) 1.7 齧埃脂鯉屬 (Bryconaethiops) 1.8 鯡脂鯉屬 (Clupeocharax) 1.9 非洲裙魚屬 (Hemigrammopetersius) 1.10 狗脂鯉屬 (Hydrocynus) 1.11 拉迪脂鯉屬 (Ladigesia) 1.12 雅非洲脂鯉屬 (Lepidarchus) 1.13 小鮭脂鯉屬 (Micralestes) 1.14 矮非洲脂鯉屬 (Nannopetersius) 1.15 彼得桂脂鯉屬 (Petersius) 1.16 斷線脂鯉屬 (Phenacogrammus) 1.17 紋鮭脂鯉屬 (Rhabdalestes) 1.18 三叉牙脂鯉屬 (Tricuspidalestes) 2 參考 分類 鮭脂鯉屬 (Alestes) Alestes ansorgii 貝爾鮭脂鯉 (Alestes baremoze) 尖齒鮭脂鯉( Alestes dentex) 低眼鮭脂鯉( Alestes inferus) 利氏鮭脂鯉 (Alestes liebrechtsii) 大眼鮭脂鯉( Alestes macrophthalmus) 斯圖爾曼鮭脂鯉( Alestes stuhlmannii) 非洲鮭鯉屬 (Alestopetersius) 雙帶非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius bifasciatus) 布氏非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius brichardi) 短尾非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius caudalis) 扁非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius compressus) (Alestopetersius conspectus) 希氏非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius hilgendorfi) 小口非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius leopoldianus) 灰鰭非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius nigropterus) 斯氏非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius smykalai) 通貝非洲鮭鯉(Alestopetersius tumbensis) 紅眼脂鯉屬 (Arnoldichthys) 點鰭紅眼脂鯉(Arnoldichthys spilopterus)
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 55
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Alestidae
- Collections
- CUMV, OS, AUM
- Recorded in
- Ethiopia, Gabon, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Central African Republic
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- References
African tetras (family Alestidae, formerly spelled Alestiidae) are a group of characiform fish found exclusively in Africa. This family contains about 18 genera and 119 species. Among the best known members are the Congo tetra and African tigerfish; both are kept in aquaria, and tigerfish are utilized for food and as gamefish.
Although currently native only to African waterways, fossil evidence suggests that during the Paleogene, they ranged as far north as southern Europe and as far east as the Arabian subcontinent. Fossil remains date back to potentially the Late Paleocene with Hydrocynus remains known from Algeria. Alestid-like teeth are also known from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of France, and phylogenetic evidence also suggests that they diverged around this time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alestidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.