Cromeria

Cromeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gonorynchiformes
Family:	Kneriidae
Genus:	Cromeria Boulenger, 1901[1]
Species
2 recognized species, see article.

Cromeria is a small genus of fish in the Kneriidae family found in fresh waters in the Sudan, Mali, and Guinea in the Nile and Niger Rivers of Africa. The size of males reaches up to 3.5 cm in the case of C. occidentalis. The currently recognized species are:^[2]

• Cromeria nilotica Boulenger, 1901 (naked shellear)
• Cromeria occidentalis Daget, 1954

References

1. ITIS.gov
2. Moritz, T., R. Britz and K.E. Linsenmair 2006. Cromeria nilotica and C. occidentalis, two valid species of the African freshwater fish family Kneriidae (Teleostei: Gonorhynchiformes).

• Eschmeyer, William N., ed. (1998). Catalog of Fishes Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. p. 2905. California Academy of Sciences: San Francisco, USA. ISBN 0-940228-47-5.
• Wu, H.L., K.-T. Shao and C.F. Lai (eds.) (1999). Latin-Chinese dictionary of fishes names.