Micralestes stormsi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Characiformes
- Family
- Alestidae
- Genus
- Micralestes
- Species
- Micralestes stormsi
- Scientific Name
- Micralestes stormsi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Micralestes stormsi
Micralestes stormsi is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alestidae, the African tetras. It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. Its natural habitat is rivers.
The fish is named in honor of Lieut. Maurice Joseph Auguste Marie Raphael Storms (1875-1941), of the Belgian Army, who collected the type specimen and presented it to the Brussels Museum. The describer, Boulenger said Storms is the cousin of Raymond Storms, who was "so well known for his important contributions to paleoichthyology".
Micralestes stormsi in languages:
- Czech
- afrotetra Stormsova
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Micralestes acutidens
- Micralestes ambiguus
- Micralestes argyrotaenia
- Micralestes comoensis
- Micralestes congicus
- Micralestes eburneensis
- Micralestes elongatus
- Micralestes fodori
- Micralestes holargyreus
- Micralestes humilis
- Micralestes lualabae
- Micralestes occidentalis
- Micralestes schelly
- Micralestes stormsi
- Micralestes vittatus




