font settings and languages

Font Size: Large | Normal | Small
Font Face: Verdana | Geneva | Georgia
Languages:

Labeo trigliceps

(Nairobi labeo)

Overview

[ Back to top ]

Family : Minnows or carps ;

Vulnerable

Threat status

Interesting Facts

[ Back to top ]
 

Common Names

[ Back to top ]

Click on the language to view common names.

Common Names in Czech:

Labeo Sabakinsk, Labeo sabakinské

Common Names in English:

Nairobi labeo

Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:

鮄形野鯪, 鮄形野鲮

Description

[ Back to top ]

Habitat

Biome: Freshwater [1].

Ecology: Max . size: 49.0 cm TL (after Froese and Pauly 2003).[1].

List of Habitats :

Taxonomy

[ Back to top ]

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Pellegrin, J. Contribution à l'étude de la faune ichtyologique du Niger et de la Guinée française d'après les envois de M. Jean Thomas. Bull . Com. Hist. Sci. A.O.F. 9(1):52-77., 1926.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 04-Jul-1994

The taxonomic status of this species is uncertain, Reid (1985) suspects the type specimens of Labeo trigliceps to be aberrant specimens of L. cylindricus (see Seegers et al. 2004). (Ref. 281238).

Similar Species

[ Back to top ]

Members of the genus Labeo

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 60 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. altivelis (Sailfin Mudsucker) · L. angra (Angra Labeo) · L. ansorgii (Kunene Labeo) · L. ariza (Ariza Labeo) · L. barbatulus (Black Sharkminnow) · L. bata (Minor Carp) · L. boga (Boga Labeo) · L. boggut (Boggut Labeo) · L. brachypoma (African Carp) · L. caeruleus (Sind Labeo) · L. calbasu (Orangefin Characin) · L. capensis (Orange River Mudfsih) · L. chariensis (African Carp) · L. chrysophekadion (Black Sharkminnow) · L. congoro (Rooiskub-Moddervis) · L. coubie (African Carp) · L. cyclorhynchus (Harlequin Sharkminnow) · L. cylindricus (Redeyed Labeo) · L. cyprinus (Barbel Steed) · L. denisonii (Denison Barb) · L. diplosomus (Sailfin Velifer) · L. dorsalis (Yellowtail Snapper) · L. dussumieri (Malabar Labeo) · L. fimbriatus (Fringed-Lipped Peninsula Carp) · L. fisheri (Mountain Labeo) · L. frenatus (Whitetail Sharkminnow) · L. fuelleborni (Fuelleborn's Labeo) · L. gonius (Kuria Labeo) · L. gregorii (Gregori´s Labeo) · L. horie (Assuan Labeo) · L. kawrus (Deccan Labeo) · L. kontius (Coal Eyed Carp) · L. lukulae (Red-Spot Mudsucker) · L. lunatus (Upper Zambesi Labeo) · L. mesops (African Carp) · L. microphthalmus (Murree Labeo) · L. molybdinus (Leaden Labeo) · L. nandina (Nandi Labeo) · L. nigrescens (Karnataka Labeo) · L. niloticus (Nile Labeo) · L. pangusia (Pangusia Labeo) · L. parvus (African Carps) · L. percivali (Ewaso Nyiro Labeo) · L. pleurotaenia (Drakensberg Minnow) · L. porcellus (Orange Fin Labeo) · L. potail (Deccan Labeo) · L. rohita (Roho Labeo) · L. rosae (Rednose Labeo) · L. rubromaculatus (Tugela Labeo) · L. ruddi (Silver Labeo) · L. seeberi (Clanwilliam Sandfish) · L. senegalensis (African Carps) · L. trigliceps (Nairobi Labeo) · L. umbratus (Moggel) · L. velifer (Fuelleborn's Labeo) · L. victorianus (Victoria Labeo) · L. victorianus fuelleborni (Fuelleborn's Labeo) · L. victorianus victorianus (Victoria Labeo) · L. weeksii (Sicklefin Labeo) · L. barbatulus (Black Sharkminnow)

More Info

[ Back to top ]

Further Reading

[ Back to top ]

Notes

[ Back to top ]

Contributors

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Vreven, E. 2006. Labeo trigliceps. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012