Bathybates hornii
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Bathybates |
| Species: | B. hornii
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathybates hornii Steindachner, 1911
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Bathybates hornii is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Lake Tanganyika where it forms schools and feeds mainly on clupeids.[2] This species is apparently rather rare. It is little known and it is normally recorded from deep water during the day and moves towards the shorelines at night.[1] The identity of the person honoured in this fish's specific name is uncertain but it is likely to be either, or both, of the Horn brothers, or , who explored German East Africa and collected specimens for the Vienna Museum where the describer Franz Steindachner was curator of fishes.[3]
References[]
- ^ a b Bigirimana, C. (2006). "Bathybates hornii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60466A12369105. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60466A12369105.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Bathybates hornii" in FishBase. October 2018 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 July 2018). "Order Cichliformes: Family Cichlidae: Subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae (a-g)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
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