Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Alestidae > Brycinus > Brycinus nurse

Brycinus nurse (Silversides; Nurse tetra; Characin)

Synonyms:
Language: Arabic; Dinka, Northeastern; Ewe; Finnish; Fulfulde, Pulaar; Ga; Hausa; Ijo; Jula; Kanuri; Kim; M; Mandarin Chinese; Mòoré; Nupe; Other; Shilluk; Sonink; Yoruba; Zande

Infraspecies

Alestes nurse var. nurse

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Brycinus nurse

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Foret Classee de la Mare Aux Hippopotames Bird Reserve IV 37906 Burkina Faso  

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[2]
Enteromius callipterus (Clipper barb)[3]
Parailia pellucida (x)[3]
Povilla adusta (African burrowing mayfly)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Lates niloticus (Victoria perch)1
Schilbe mystus (Silver catfish)1
Synodontis membranaceus (Catfish)1

Predators

Bagrus docmak (Sudan catfish)[2]

Consumers

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.
♦ 3The diet of Brycinus nurse (Pisces: Characidae) from Asa reservoir, Ilorin, Nigeria, J.K. Saliu, Rev. Biol. Trop. 50(1): 239-242, 2002
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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