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Sierrathrissa leonensis (West African pygmy herring)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The West African pygmy herring (Sierrathrissa leonensis) is a very small fish, reaching a maximum length of 3 centimetres (1.2 in) SL, is is a member of the herring family Clupeidae, and belongs to a radiation of the subfamily Pellonulinae in the freshwater systems of western and central Africa that incluses such species as the Microthrissa royauxi of the Congo River basin and Limnothrissa miodon of Lake Tanganyika. It is the only species of its genus.
View Wikipedia Record: Sierrathrissa leonensis

Predators

Schilbe mystus (Silver catfish)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Glyphidohaptor plectocirra[2]
Hemiurus appendiculatus[2]
Sclerocollum rubrimaris[2]

Range Map

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Citations

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♦ 1"The food and feeding habits of Eutropius niloticus (Ruppell), family Schilbeidae (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) in Lake Kainji, Nigeria", Akinola A. Olatunde, Hydrobiologia February 1978, Volume 57, Issue 3, pp 197-207
♦ 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.
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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