Ichthyborus
Ichthyborus besse (middle and bottom), Nannaethiops unitaeniatus (top left), and Nannocharax niloticus (top right)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Distichodontidae
Genus: Ichthyborus
Günther, 1864

Ichthyborus is a genus of distichodontid fishes found in tropical Africa. They are piscivores that feed both on (whole) fish and fins of fish.[1][2][3]

Species

There are five recognized species:[4]

  • Ichthyborus besse (de Joannis, 1835)
  • Ichthyborus congolensis Giltay, 1930
  • Ichthyborus monodi (Pellegrin, 1927)
  • Ichthyborus ornatus (Boulenger, 1899)
  • Ichthyborus quadrilineatus (Pellegrin, 1904)

References

  1. ↑ Lavoué, S.; M.E.Arnegard; D.L. Rabosky; P.B. McIntyre; D. Arcila; R.P. Vari; M. Nishida (2017). Trophic evolution in African citharinoid fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) and the origin of intraordinal pterygophagy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 113: 23-32. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.001
  2. ↑ Matthes, H. (1961). Feeding Habit of Some Central African Freshwater Fishes. Nature 192: 78–80.
  3. ↑ Arroyave, J.; M.L.J. Stiassny (2014). DNA barcoding reveals novel insights into pterygophagy and prey selection in distichodontid fishes (Characiformes: Distichodontidae). Ecology and evolution 4(23): 4534–4542. doi:10.1002/ece3.1321
  4. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Ichthyborus in FishBase. October 2018 version.
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