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Rastrineobola argentea (Silver cyprinid; Sardine; Mukene; Lake Victoria sardine)

Synonyms: Engraulicypris argenteus; Neobola argentea
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Wikipedia Abstract

The silver cyprinid, Rastrineobola argentea, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, the only member of the genus Rastrineobola. It is found in the Lake Victoria of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its local names are omena (Kenya), dagaa (Tanzania), and mukene (Uganda). Being a fast-swimming rather small fish of the open waters, it has been better able to withstand the ecological upheaval caused mainly by the introduced predator Lates niloticus (Nile perch) than most other local species. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.
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Prey / Diet

Caridina nilotica[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Enteromius brevipinnis (Shortfin Barb)1
Lates niloticus (Victoria perch)1

Predators

Ceryle rudis (Pied Kingfisher)[2]
Haplochromis argenteus (Lake Victoria cichlid)[3]
Haplochromis pyrrhopteryx[3]
Lates niloticus (Victoria perch)[3]
Oreochromis niloticus (Nile tilapia)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Allocreadium engraulicypridis[5]
Ligula intestinalis[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Budeba YL (1999) The role of Caridina Nilotica (Roux) in Lake Victoria fisheries with reference to Lates niloticus (L.). In: Report on the 4th Fisheries Data Working Group (FIDAWOG) Workshop (eds IGCowx & D. Tweddle) pp. 163–74. LVFRP, Jinja, Uganda.
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Njiru, M. (1999) Feeding ecology and population characteristics of Oreochromis niloticus (L.) and trophic interactions in the fish community of Nyanza Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya. In: Tweddle, D. and Cowx, I.G. (eds.) Report on third Fisheries Data Working Group (FIDAWOG) workshop held at the Triangle Hotel, Jinja, 29 March to 1 April 1999. Jinja, Fisheries Data Working Group of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Research Project, pp. 68-72. (LVFRP Technical Document,6)
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0