Eastern Province rocky

The Eastern Province rocky (Sandelia bainsii), also known as rocky kurper, is a species of fish in the family Anabantidae. It is endemic to South Africa.[2]

Eastern Province rocky
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anabantiformes
Family: Anabantidae
Genus: Sandelia
Species:
S. bainsii
Binomial name
Sandelia bainsii
Castelnau, 1861

It used to be found in small populations dispersed in small areas over a wide distribution throughout the Eastern Cape, such as in the Gulu River, Igoda River, Yellowwoods River (Buffalo), Nahoon River, Kowie River, Koonap River, Kat River (Great Fish) and the Tyhume River (Keiskamma). It is doubtful whether those fragmented populations will be viable in the future because they find themselves under a number of threats from agricultural practices, pollution and invasive species.[1]

The specific name of this species is thought to honour the Scottish geologist, explorer and soldier Andrew Geddes Bain (1797-1864) who also collected zoological specimens. Bain served as a captain in the Cape Frontier Wars and may have fought the tribal chief Sandile, for whom Castelnau named the genus.[3]

References
  1. Chakona, A.; Sifundza, D. & Kadye, W.T. (2018). "Sandelia bainsii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T19889A99447325. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T19889A99447325.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Sandelia bainsii" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (21 October 2019). "Order ANABANTIFORMES: Families ANABANTIDAE, HELOSTOMATIDAE, OSPHRONEMIDAE, CHANNIDAE, NANDIDAE, BADIDAE, and PRISTOLEPIDIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 December 2019.


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