Bathybates hornii is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Lake Tanganyika where it forms schools and feeds mainly on clupeids.[2] This species is apparently rather rare. It is little known and it is normally recorded from deep water during the day and moves towards the shorelines at night.[1] The identity of the person honoured in this fish's specific name is uncertain but it is likely to be either, or both, of the Horn brothers, Adolf or Albin, who explored German East Africa and collected specimens for the Vienna Museum where the describer Franz Steindachner was curator of fishes.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Bathybates |
| Species: | B. hornii
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| Bathybates hornii Steindachner, 1911
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References edit
- ^ a b Bigirimana, C. (2006). "Bathybates hornii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60466A12369105. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60466A12369105.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Bathybates hornii" in FishBase. October 2018 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 July 2018). "Order Cichliformes: Family Cichlidae: Subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae (a-g)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
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