Fenerbahce (fish)

Fenerbahce is a genus of fish in the family Nothobranchiidae endemic to Africa where they are only known from the Congo Basin. The current genus name was adopted to replace the genus Adamas Huber, 1979 which was a junior homonym of the genus Adamas Malaise, 1945 of the sawfly family Tenthredinidae.[2]

Fenerbahce
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Nothobranchiidae
Genus: Fenerbahce
Özdikmen, Polat, Yılmaz & Yazıcıoğlu, 2006
Type species
Adamas formosus
Huber, 1979[1]

Etymology

The genus has been named in honor of Fenerbahçe SK, a major Turkish multi-sport club based in Istanbul, Turkey. The name literally means "lighthouse garden" in Turkish (from fener, meaning "lighthouse", and bahçe, meaning "garden"), deriving from an ancient lighthouse located at Fenerbahçe Cape.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[3]

  • Fenerbahce devosi Sonnenberg, Woeltjes & Van der Zee, 2011
  • Fenerbahce formosus (Huber, 1979) (Starhead killi)
gollark: Well, actually, RocketRace is just my alt.
gollark: I don't know nom as much as parser combinators generally actually?
gollark: I don't know, sorry, try duckduckduckgo?
gollark: Well, it looks like something wants a u8 but you have a char, or the other way round.
gollark: No, it can just... do sockets?

References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Fenerbahce". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  2. Özdikmen, H., N. Polat, M. Yılmaz & O. Yazıcıoğlu (2006): A Replacement Name for the Preoccupied Genus Name Adamas Huber, 1979 (Actinopterygii: Cyprinodontiformes). Munis Entomology & Zoology, 1 (1): 167-168
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Fenerbahce in FishBase. August 2012 version.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.