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Inkisi Tetra
Nannopetersius mutambuei
Nannopetersius mutambuei is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alestidae, the African tetras. It is endemic to the Inkisi River upstream of the Sanga dam in the lower Congo River basin, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
From the article Nannopetersius mutambuei on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The species epithet is named in honor of Prof. Mutambue Shango, the General Academic Secretary, of the École Régionale post-universitaire d’Aménagement et gestion Intégrée des Forêts et territoires Tropicaux in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, who was responsible for collecting many fishes from the Inkisi River basin in 1985 and 1986.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 607977.