Barbus Choloensis
We want to protect everything at Mwabvi, big and small. The Reserve has two endangered endemic creatures - the double barred Sand Grouse and the Barbus Choloensis. The information we have was given to us by Dennis Tweddle, more data is available from the sources quoted below or please contact us for details of the locations.
Barbus Choloensis is a small fish that is found in the Mwabvi Gorge. It is classified as vunerable by the IUCN Red List. It's endemic to Malawi and according to research conducted by Tweddle and Willoughby (1979) it can be found in the Mwabvi River. "Barbus choloensis is very similar to the southern African barb B. crocodilensis, which in current literature is incorrectly given as a synonym of Barbus argenteus from Angola. We split them in the southern Africa red data list" (Tweddle 2010).
Sources:
IUCN Redlist. "Barbus Choloensis." IUCN Redlist . Web. 14 July 2010. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/60413/0 .
Tweddle, D. "photo of b. cholensis." Email to the author. 8 June 2010.
Tweddle, D. "Re: Barbus cholensis." Email to the author. 4 June 2010.
Tweddle, D and Willoughby, N.G. 1979. An annonated checklist of the fish fauna of the River Shire south of Kapachira falls. Unpublished report
