Mastacembelus moorii

Mastacembelus moorii
	Mastacembelus moorii
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Synbranchiformes
Family:	Mastacembelidae
Genus:	Mastacembelus
Species:	M. moorii
Binomial name
	Mastacembelus moorii; Boulenger, 1898
Synonyms
	Aethiomastacembelus moori (Boulenger, 1898); Afromastacembelus moorii (Boulenger, 1898); Caecomastacembelus moorii (Boulenger, 1898); Mastacembelus moorii nigrofasciatus David & Poll, 1937; Mastacembelus christyi Worthington & Ricardo, 1937;

Mastacembelus moorii is a species of fish in the family Mastacembelidae. It is endemic to Lake Tanganyika where it is a secretive species hiding among rocks or in the sediment in the littoral zone. It grows to a total length of 44 centimetres (17 in).^[2] The specific name honours the leader of an expedition to Lake Tanganyika, the biologist John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870-1947).^[3]

References

^ Ntakimazi, G.; Vreven, E. (2006). "Mastacembelus moorii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T61270A12456238. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61270A12456238.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Mastacembelus moorii". FishBase. August 2019 version.
^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (17 June 2019). "Order SYNBRANCHIFORMES: Families SYNBRANCHIDAE, CHAUDHURIIDAE, MASTACEMBELIDAE and INDOSTOMIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 November 2019.

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