Hydrocynus vittatus Castelnau, 1861
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Characiformes
- family
- Alestidae
- genus
- Hydrocynus
- species
- Hydrocynus vittatus
Name
- Synonyms
- Hydrocinus vittatus Castelnau, 1861
- Hydrocion lineatus Schlegel, 1863
- Hydrocynus lineatus (Schlegel, 1863)
- Hydrocyon lineatus Schlegel, 1863
- Hydrocyon vittatus Boulenger, 1898
- Homonyms
- Hydrocynus vittatus Castelnau, 1861
- Common names
- African Tigerfish in English
- Akao in Irish
- Almindelig tigerfisk in language.
- Avuwo kordzeasa in Ewe
- Bongela in language.
- Bosenekele in language.
- Ebma tsagi in language.
- Gestreifter Wasserhund in German
- Hidi in language.
- Hidi Dare in language.
- Hiding in language.
- Hiring in language.
- Ijakere in Yoruba
- Kachinga in Swahili
- Kalb el bahr in Arabic
- Kas in Arabic
- Kasangi in language.
- Kass in Arabic
- Kiri shelia in Kanuri
- Koris in language.
- Linjatiikeritetra in Finnish
- Lokel in language.
- Makhatat in Arabic
- Manda in language.
- Mcheni in Nyanja
- Muka in language.
- Munda in language.
- Ncheni in language.
- Ndweshi in English
- Ngania in language.
- Ngweshi in language.
- Nsanga in language.
- Owulueze in Igbo
- Pez tigre in Spanish
- Sokonto in language.
- Striped Tigerfish in English
- Tiervis in Afrikaans
- Tiger Fish in English
- Tigerfisch in German
- Tigersalmler in German
- Tijgervis in Dutch
- Wagassa in language.
- Zawai in Hausa
- afrotetra botswanská in Czech
- nGweshe in Tswana
- Обыкновенная тигровая рыба in Russian
- 狗脂鯉 in language.
- 狗脂鲤 in language.
- Tigerfish in English
- Almindelig tigerfisk in Danish
Bibliographic References
- Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78.
- Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
- Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4