Cromeria

Cromeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gonorynchiformes
Family:	Kneriidae
Genus:	Cromeria Boulenger, 1901^[1]
Species
2 recognized species, see article.

Cromeria is a small genus of fish in the Kneriidae family found in fresh waters in the Sudan, Mali, and Guinea in the Nile and Niger Rivers of Africa. These reach a length of up to 4.4 cm. The currently recognized species are:^[2]^[3]

References

↑ ITIS.gov
↑ Moritz, T., R. Britz and K.E. Linsenmair 2006. Cromeria nilotica and C. occidentalis, two valid species of the African freshwater fish family Kneriidae (Teleostei: Gonorhynchiformes).
↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2016). Species of Cromeria in FishBase. August 2016 version.

Eschmeyer, William N., ed. (1998). Catalog of Fishes Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. p. 2905. California Academy of Sciences: San Francisco, USA. ISBN 0-940228-47-5.
Wu, H.L., K.-T. Shao and C.F. Lai (eds.) (1999). Latin-Chinese dictionary of fishes names.

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