Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Cyprinidae > Enteromius > Enteromius fasciolatus

Enteromius fasciolatus (African banded barb; Angola barb; Angolan barb; Barred barb; Orange barb; Red barb; Tiger barb)

Synonyms: Barbodes fasciolatus; Barbus barilioides; Barbus faciolatus; Barbus fasciolatus; Puntius fasciolatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Barbus fasciolatus, the African banded barb, Angola barb, blue-barred barb or fire barb is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is found mainly in Angola and Zambia, extending into neighboring Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are the upper and middle Zambezi River, the Cunene and Kafue Rivers, the Luapula River and Lake Mweru, the Okavango River, Lake Kariba, and the Zambian Congo River, as well as some of their tributaries.
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Ecoregions

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

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Moremi Game Reserve IV 1214686 Botswana  

Range Map

External References

Citations

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