Micralestes

Micralestes is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Alestidae, the African tetras. These fishes are found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Micralestes is referenced by 6 other articles, and connects out to Animalia, Zambia and Chordata.

It sits within the topics Alestidae, Fish of Africa and Micralestes.

Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassTeleostei
OrderCharaciformes
FamilyAlestidae

Habitatfreshwater

Observations recorded5,512

Roberts & Stewart (1976) in their work on the fishes of the lower Congo River reported the presence of two Micralestes in their collections: M. acutidens (Fig. 1A) and M. humilis (Fig. 1C). Recent collections in the region also include specimens of M. lualabae (Fig. 1D), M. stormsi (Fig. 1E) and M. holargyreus (Fig. 1B). In addition to these, a collection made in the vicinity of Inga revealed the presence of a population of diminutive alestid that appears most closely to resemble Micralestes but that are not assignable to any described Micralestes or to any other species dwarf African alestid.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 147
Family: Alestidae
Collections: CUMV, AUM, USNM, CAS
Recorded in: Ethiopia, Cameroon, Congo, Zambia, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Egypt, Central African Republic

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Alestidae
Image: Micralestes sardina Poll, 1938 collected in Zambia by South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity.jpg

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Commons category: Micralestes
topic's main category: Category:Micralestes
taxon name: Micralestes
taxon rank: genus

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Micralestes is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Alestidae, the African tetras. These fishes are found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

== Species == thumb|Micralestes humilis collected in the [[Lukulu river, Lavushi Manda National Park, Zambia by the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity]] Micralestes contains the following species: Micralestes acutidens (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (Sharptooth tetra) Micralestes ambiguus Géry, 1995 Micralestes argyrotaenia Trewavas, 1936 Micralestes comoensis Poll & Román, 1967 Micralestes congicus Poll, 1967 Micralestes eburneensis Daget, 1965 Micralestes elongatus [Daget, 1957 (Elongated Turkana robber) Micralestes fodori Matthes, 1965 Micralestes holargyreus (Günther, 1873) Micralestes humilis Boulenger, 1899 Micralestes lualabae Poll, 1967 Micralestes occidentalis (Günther, 1899) Micralestes pabrensis (Román, 1966) Micralestes schelly Stiassny & Mamonekene, 2007 Micralestes stormsi Boulenger, 1902 Micralestes vittatus (Boulenger, 1917)

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