Labeo victorianus Boulenger, 1901 Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Artificial spawning / experimental spawning : Rutaisire & Booth, 2004 .
  • Biology : Corbet, 1961 | Whitehead, 1959 a .
  • Colour pattern : Reid, 1985 .
  • Common names : Labeo viktorianské (Czech), Ningu / Victoria labeo (English), Ningu-narmasmokk (Estonian), Victorianlabeo (Finnish), Apok (Lango: Uganda), Ningu (Luo: Kenya), Nsuku (Nyoro: Uganda), Ikiraba / Impiryi / Iningu / Umuraba [Rwanda (Kinyarwanda): Rwanda], Ningu (Swahili: Tanzania, Uganda) .
  • Current distribution known : endemic to the Lake Victoria drainage. It occurs in shallow, inshore waters of Lake Victoria and affluent rivers such as the Nzoia, Yala, all Kenyan inflowing rivers (Nyando, Nzoia, Sondu Mirio and Mara and Akagera Rivers. It is also found in Lake Katwe and Lake Kubigena in Tanzania. It is also reported from the Victoria Nile and Lake Kyoga system in Uganda, the middle and upper Akagera system in Rwanda and the Ruvubu River in Burundi .
  • Distribution_references : De Vos, 1991 | Eccles, 1992 | Reid, 1985 .
  • Ecology : Corbet, 1961 | Whitehead, 1959 a .
  • Fisheries / overfishing : Cadwalladr, 1965 | Garrod, 1961 .
  • Food habits : specialized feeder on epilithic and epiphytic algae. Also feeds on rotifers growing on the body of other fishes .
  • Food habits_references : De Vos, 1991 .
  • Habitat_references : Eccles, 1992 .
  • Morphology / anatomy : De Vos, 1991 | Reid, 1982 | Reid, 1985 .
  • Parasites : Crafford et al.,, 2012 .
  • Phylogeny : Liyandja et al., 2022 .
  • Reproduction : anadromous species; ascending both large rivers and streams during floods and spawning in floodwater pools or inundated grasses at margins of rivers. Upstream migration at beginning of rains in fairly compact shoals .
  • Reproduction_references : De Vos, 1991 | Kembenya et al., 2022 | Rutaisire & Booth, 2005 .
  • Size : 410 mm SL .
  • Types :
    • Labeo victorianus Boulenger, 1901 m: 159. Type locality: "Lake Victoria". Syntypes BMNH n° 1901.6.24: 95 to 97.