Parauchenoglanis

Parauchenoglanis is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.

Parauchenoglanis
Parauchenoglanis longiceps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Claroteidae
Subfamily: Auchenoglanidinae
Genus: Parauchenoglanis
Boulenger, 1911
Type species
Pimelodus guttatus
Lönnberg, 1895
Species

See text.

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


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