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Enteromius pobeguini (Pellegrin, 1911)

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Open encyclopedia reference

Enteromius pobeguini is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Enteromius from the Sudanian basins of Niger, Senegal, Gambia and Volta Rivers; also found in certain coastal basins like Comoé, Bandama and Sassandra Rivers in Côte d'Ivoire, and Tominé River in Guinea, Adrar Mountains in Mauritania and Bandingara Plateau in Mali.

Wikipedia contributors, Enteromius pobeguini; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T22:28:11.885258+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Enteromius pobeguini (Pellegrin, 1911)
Name authority
(Pellegrin, 1911)
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Cypriniformes
Family
Cyprinidae
Genus
Enteromius
Extinction status
Not supplied by this source

Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. gigaclassActinopterygii
  8. superclassActinopteri
  9. classTeleostei
  10. orderCypriniformes
  11. familyCyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815
  12. subfamilyBarbinae Bleeker, 1859
  13. genusEnteromius Cope, 1867
  14. speciesEnteromius pobeguini (Pellegrin, 1911)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Enteromius. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Enteromius afrovernayi (Nichols & Boulton, 1927)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius aloyi (Roman, 1971)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius anema (Boulenger, 1903)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius annectens (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius anniae (Lévêque, 1983)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius ansorgii (Boulenger, 1904)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius apleurogramma (Boulenger, 1911)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius aspilus (Boulenger, 1907)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius atromaculatus (Nichols & Griscom, 1917)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius bagbwensis (Norman, 1932)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius baudoni (Boulenger, 1918)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Enteromius bifrenatus (Fowler, 1935)CyprinidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

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Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Hemigrammocapoeta mirei (Estève, 1952) (Estève, 1952)synonym
Barbus pobeguini pobeguini Pellegrin, 1911 Pellegrin, 1911synonym
Afropuntio pobeguini (Pellegrin, 1911) (Pellegrin, 1911)synonym
Barbus mirei Estève, 1952 Estève, 1952synonym
Barbus pobeguini mauritanica Pellegrin, 1937 Pellegrin, 1937synonym
Barbus pobeguini Pellegrin, 1911 Pellegrin, 1911synonym

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1525992 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:39YDD. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.