Neobola
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Neobola is a genus
of cyprinid
fishes found mostly in East Africa
. There are currently four species in this genus.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of cyprinid
Cyprinid
The family Cyprinidae, from the Ancient Greek kyprînos , consists of the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives . Commonly called the carp family or the minnow family, its members are also known as cyprinids...
fishes found mostly in East Africa
East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
. There are currently four species in this genus.
Species
- Neobola bottegoi Vinciguerra, 1895
- Neobola fluviatilis (Whitehead, 1962) (Athi Sardine)
- Neobola nilotica WernerFranz WernerFranz Werner was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects, and other organisms....
, 1919 - Neobola stellaeNeobola stellaeNeobola stellae is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is endemic to Lake Turkana in Ethiopia and Kenya.-References:* Odhiambo, E.A. 2005. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....
(Worthington, 1932)