Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Cyprinidae > Labeo > Labeo altivelis

Labeo altivelis (Hunyani labeo; Manyame labeo; Rednose labeo; Rednose mudsucker; Sailfin mudsucker)

Synonyms: Labeo altivelus
Language: Afrikaans; Bemba; Czech; Finnish; Mandarin Chinese; Nyanja

Wikipedia Abstract

The rednose labeo (Labeo altivelis) is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. Other common names include Hunyani labeo, Manyame labeo, rednose mudsucker, and sailfin mudsucker. It is native to Africa, where it is distributed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. This fish is about 27 centimeters long at maturity. It has been known to reach 49 centimeters in length and 3.6 kilograms in weight. Its maximum reported age is nine years.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.365 lbs (1.98 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  9 years
Migration [2]  Potamodromous

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Camallanus kirandensis <Unverified Name>[4]

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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.
♦ 4Gibson, 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