River sardine
| River sardine | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Danionidae |
| Genus: | Engraulicypris |
| Species: | E. brevianalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Engraulicypris brevianalis (Boulenger, 1908) | |
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The river sardine (Engraulicypris brevianalis), or hyphen barb, is an African species of [freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Danionidae. It is found in the Cunene, Okavango, upper Zambezi river systems and east coastal rivers from the Limpopo to the Umfolozi in northern KwaZulu-Natal. It is also known from the middle Luapula in Zambia. Engraulicypris gariepinus is sometimes considered conspecific.