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Raiamas moorii
The Lake Rukwa minnow (Raiamas moorii) is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is found in Lake Tanganyika, Lake Kivu, and Lake Rukwa in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas.
From the article Lake Rukwa minnow on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The fish is named in honor of John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870–1947), a British biologist and a Tanganyika expedition leader, who discovered this species.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 111506.