The Malagarasi sardine (Engraulicypris spinifer[1] or Mesobola spinifer[2][3]) is an East African species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the Malagarasi River in Burundi and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas. It is threatened by habitat loss.[3]
^Riddin, M.A., Bills, I.R. & Villet, M.H. (2016): Phylogeographic, morphometric and taxonomic re-evaluation of the river sardine, Mesobola brevianalis (Boulenger, 1908) (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Chedrini). ZooKeys, 641: 121–150.
^Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Mesobola spinifer" in FishBase. April 2016 version.
^ abNatakimazi, G.; Hanssens, M. (2006). "Mesobola spinifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T61272A12456409. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61272A12456409.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
The Malagarasisardine (Engraulicypris spinifer or Mesobola spinifer) is an East African species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic...
Hyparrhenia, Themeda, and Echinochloa. The Malagarasisardine (Mesobola spinifer) is endemic to the river. The Malagarasi contains several fish species which...
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suggests the Lake Tanganyika sardine was endemic to Lake Tanganyika extending into the lower reaches of the Malagarasi River. It was introduced to Lake...
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