Biology:Parauchenoglanis
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Parauchenoglanis | |
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| Parauchenoglanis longiceps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Claroteidae |
| Subfamily: | Auchenoglanidinae |
| Genus: | Parauchenoglanis Boulenger, 1911 |
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| Pimelodus guttatus Lönnberg, 1895
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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]
- 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Parauchenoglanis in FishBase. December 2011 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q61069 entry
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