''Raiamas batesii'' is a species of

cyprinid fish Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barbs and barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family, and the ...

in the genus ''

Raiamas ''Raiamas'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Danionidae, the danios or danionins. The majority of the species are from Africa, but ''R. bola'' and ''R. guttatus '' are from South and Southeast Asia. Species ' ...

''. It occurs in the

Dja River The Dja River (also known as the Ngoko River) is a stream in west-central Africa. It forms part of Cameroon–Republic of Congo border and has a course of roughly . Rising southeast of the southeastern Cameroon town of Abong-Mbang, the Dja Fauna ...

Sanaga River The Sanaga River (formerly ) is the largest river in Cameroon located in East Region (Cameroon), East Region, Centre Region (Cameroon), Centre Region and Littoral Region (Cameroon), Littoral Region. Its length is about from the confluence of Dj ...

and

Nyong River The Nyong (formerly ) is a river in Cameroon. The river flows approximately to empty into the Gulf of Guinea. Course The Nyong originates east of the town of Abong-Mbang, where the northern rain forest feeds it. The river's length is almost ...

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

where it forms part of a fishery.Lévêque, C. and J. Daget, 1984. Cyprinidae. p. 217-342. In J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse and D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ORSTOM, Paris and MRAC, Tervuren. Vol. 1

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of an American farmer and amateur ornithologist,

George Latimer Bates George Griswold Latimer Bates (March 21, 1863, Abingdon, Illinois US – January 31, 1940 Chelmsford UK), LL.D., British Ornithologists' Union, M.B.O.U. was an American natural history, naturalist. He lived in central Africa and travelled widely, ...

(1863–1940), who collected specimens for the

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in the Cameroons, including the holotype specimen of this species.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3763991 Endemic fauna of Cameroon batesi Cyprinid fish of Africa Fish described in 1914