Alestes

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Alestes
Alestes baremoze
Alestes baremoze
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Superfamily: Alestioidea
Family: Alestiidae
Genus: Alestes
Müller and Troschel (1846)
Species

Alestes affinis
 Alestes ansorgii
 Alestes baremoze
 Alestes bartoni
 Alestes batesii
 Alestes bimaculatus
 Alestes bouboni
 Alestes carmesinus
 Alestes comptus
 Alestes dentex
 Alestes grandisquamis
 Alestes humilis
 Alestes imbera
 Alestes jacksonii
 Alestes liebrechtsii
 Alestes macrophthalmus
 Alestes natalensis
 Alestes peringueyi
 Alestes rhodopleura
 Alestes schoutedeni
 Alestes stuhlmannii
 Alestes taeniurus
 Alestes tessmanni
 Alestes tholloni

Alestes is a genus in the family Alestiidae, known as the "African Characidae" as they are found exclusively on that continent. Alestes is a synonym with Myletes, though this name is not longer used.[1] Within the Lake Chad basin, Alestes and Hydrocynus, collectively known as salanga, are lightly smoked and dried.[2]

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Myletes Cuvier, 1814, Integrated Taxonomic Information System
  2. ^ Fisheries Development Within the Framework of the Lake Chad Basin Commission by A. Staunch, presented at the Symposium on the Evaluation of Fishery Resources in the Development and Management of Inland Fisheries, 1972 (hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization)
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