Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Alestidae > Brycinus > Brycinus longipinnis

Brycinus longipinnis (Silversides; Long-finned Characin; Longfin tetra; Long finned characin; Characin; African tetras; African tetra; African long-finned tetra; African longfin tetra; African longfin)

Synonyms:
Language: Danish; Ewe; Finnish; Ga; German; Hausa; Ijo; Kanuri; Krio; Mandarin Chinese; Nupe; Polish; Yoruba

Wikipedia Abstract

Primarily known as long-fin tetra, Brycinus longipinnis is also described as African long-finned tetra among other terms.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Takamanda Forest Reserve National Park II 167041 Cameroon  

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[2]

Predators

Hydrocynus forskahlii (Tigerfish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Annulotrema kribiense[3]
Annulotrema lamberti[3]
Annulotrema moanko[3]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3Gibson, 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