Mastacembelus cunningtoni

Mastacembelus cunningtoni is a species of fish in the family Mastacembelidae. It is endemic to the Lake Tanganyika basin, including the Lakes outflow, the Lukuga River as far as the Kisimba-Kilia rapids. It occurs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.[2] The specific name of this fish honours the British zoologist and anthropologist William Alfred Cunnington (1877-1958), leaderof the expedition to Lake Tanganyika which collected the type.[3]

Mastacembelus cunningtoni
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Synbranchiformes
Family:	Mastacembelidae
Genus:	Mastacembelus
Species:	M. cunningtoni
Binomial name
Mastacembelus cunningtoni Boulenger, 1906
Synonyms[2]
Aethiomastacembelus cunningtoni (Boulenger, 1906) Afromastacembelus cunningtoni (Boulenger, 1906)

References

1. Bigirimana, C. & Vreven, E. (2006). "Mastacembelus cunningtoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60388A12348700. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60388A12348700.en.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Mastacembelus cunningtoni" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (17 June 2019). "Order SYNBRANCHIFORMES: Families SYNBRANCHIDAE, CHAUDHURIIDAE, MASTACEMBELIDAE and INDOSTOMIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 November 2019.