Parauchenoglanis

<i>Parauchenoglanis</i>

Parauchenoglanis

Genus of fishes

Parauchenoglanis is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.

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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]

  • Parauchenoglanis ahli (Holly, 1930)
  • Parauchenoglanis altipinnis (Boulenger, 1911)
  • Parauchenoglanis balayi (Sauvage, 1879)
  • Parauchenoglanis buettikoferi (Popta, 1913)
  • Parauchenoglanis longiceps (Boulenger, 1913)
  • Parauchenoglanis monkei (Keilhack, 1910) (Dotted catfish)
  • Parauchenoglanis ngamensis (Boulenger, 1911) (Zambezi grunter)
  • Parauchenoglanis pantherinus (Pellegrin, 1929)
  • Parauchenoglanis punctatus (Boulenger, 1902)

References

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Parauchenoglanis in FishBase. December 2011 version.


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