Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Alestidae > Brycinus > Brycinus lateralis

Brycinus lateralis (Stripped robber; Stripe-tailed robber; Striped robber)

Synonyms: Alestes langi; Alestes lateralis; Alestes natalensis; Alestes thamalakanensis; Myletes lateralis
Language: Afrikaans; Bemba; Lwena; Nyanja

Wikipedia Abstract

The striped robber (Brycinus lateralis) is a species of fish in the family Alestidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are rivers and inland deltas.
View Wikipedia Record: Brycinus lateralis

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Okavango Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Predators

Hydrocynus vittatus (Tigerfish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Annulotrema curvipenis[3]
Characidotrema nursei[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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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