Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Alestidae > Brycinus > Brycinus imberi

Brycinus imberi (Spot-tailed robber; Spot-tail robber; Spot-tail; Silversides; Imberi; Characin)

Synonyms:
Language: Adangme; Afrikaans; Bemba; Ewe; Finnish; Ga; German; Nyanja; Swahili; Wolof

Infraspecies

Alestes fuchsii var. fuchsii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  165 grams
Maximum Longevity [3]  5 years
Migration [2]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve   Mpumalanga, South Africa  

Predators

Hydrocynus vittatus (Tigerfish)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Annulotrema alestesimberi[5]
Annulotrema allogravis[5]
Characidotrema ruahae[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Gibson, 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