Chelaethiops is a genus of cyprinid fish found in lakes and rivers of Africa. While commonly called "sardines", they are not related to the true sardines of the family Clupeidae. There are currently five recognized species in this genus.
chelaethiops, genus, cyprinid, fish, found, lakes, rivers, africa, while, commonly, called, sardines, they, related, true, sardines, family, clupeidae, there, currently, five, recognized, species, this, genus, scientific, classificationdomain, eukaryotakingdom. Chelaethiops is a genus of cyprinid fish found in lakes and rivers of Africa While commonly called sardines they are not related to the true sardines of the family Clupeidae There are currently five recognized species in this genus ChelaethiopsScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass ActinopterygiiOrder CypriniformesFamily CyprinidaeSubfamily DanioninaeGenus ChelaethiopsBoulenger 1899Type speciesChelaethiops elongatusBoulenger 1899Species editChelaethiops bibie Joannis 1835 Lake Turkana sardine Chelaethiops congicus Nichols amp Griscom 1917 Chelaethiops elongatus Boulenger 1899 Chelaethiops minutus Boulenger 1906 Chelaethiops rukwaensis Ricardo 1939 Lake Rukwa Sardine References editFroese Rainer and Pauly Daniel eds 2011 Species of Chelaethiops in FishBase August 2011 version nbsp This Cyprinidae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chelaethiops amp oldid 1010490059, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
