Bathyclarias
Bathyclarias is a genus of airbreathing catfish endemic to Lake Malawi in Africa.[1] Several are components of local commercial fisheries.
| Bathyclarias | |
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| Bathyclarias foveolatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Clariidae |
| Genus: | Bathyclarias P. B. N. Jackson, 1959 |
| Type species | |
| Clarias longibarbis Worthington, 1933 | |
| Species | |
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Species
There are currently contains eight recognized species:[2]
- Bathyclarias atribranchus (Greenwood, 1961)
- Bathyclarias eurydon P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
- Bathyclarias filicibarbis P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
- Bathyclarias foveolatus (P. B. N. Jackson, 1955)
- Bathyclarias longibarbis (Worthington, 1933)
- Bathyclarias nyasensis (Worthington, 1933)
- Bathyclarias rotundifrons P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
- Bathyclarias worthingtoni P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
References
- Anseaume, L.; and G.G. Teugels (1999). On the rehabilitation of the clariid catfish genus Bathyclarias endemic to the East African Rift Lake Malawi. Fish Biology 55(2): 405–419. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1999.tb00687.x
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Bathyclarias in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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