Parauchenoglanis
Parauchenoglanis | |
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Parauchenoglanis longiceps | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Claroteidae |
Subfamily: | |
Genus: | Parauchenoglanis Boulenger, 1911 |
Type species | |
Pimelodus guttatus Lönnberg, 1895
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Species | |
See text. |
Parauchenoglanis is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.
The range of the genus Parauchenoglanis stretches from the coastal lowlands of Benin and Nigeria to the Okavango and upper Zambezi River systems in Botswana and Zambia.[1]
Species[]
Parauchenoglanis currently contains the following nine recognized species:[2]
- (, 1930)
- (Boulenger, 1911)
- (Sauvage, 1879)
- (Popta, 1913)
- (Boulenger, 1913)
- (, 1910) (Dotted catfish)
- (Boulenger, 1911) (Zambezi grunter)
- (Pellegrin, 1929)
- (Boulenger, 1902)
References[]
- ^ Geerinckx, T.; Adriaens, D.; Teugels, G. G.; Verraes, W. (2004). "A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Parauchenoglanis (Siluriformes: Claroteidae)". Journal of Natural History. 38 (6): 775–803. doi:10.1080/0022293021000039160. S2CID 84727032.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Parauchenoglanis in FishBase. December 2011 version.
Categories:
- Claroteidae
- Fish of Africa
- Catfish genera
- Freshwater fish genera
- Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
- Siluriformes stubs