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African Characins
Alestes
Alestes is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Alestidae, the African characins. As suggested by the name, the Alestidae was formerly included in Characidae before that family was limited to South American fish. Myletes was a synonym of Alestes, which was also used for various South American serrasalmids but this name was suppressed by Opinion 1813 of the ICZN.
Within the Lake Chad basin, Alestes and Hydrocynus, collectively known as salanga, are lightly smoked and dried.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species
Torpedo Robber
speciesAlestes macrophthalmus
Silversides
speciesAlestes baremoze
Alestes liebrechtsii
speciesAlestes liebrechtsii
Nile Robber
speciesAlestes dentex
Alestes inferus
speciesAlestes inferus
Alestes stuhlmannii
speciesAlestes stuhlmannii
Alestes ansorgii
speciesAlestes ansorgii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 55206.