Parauchenoglanis
Parauchenoglanis is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.
| Parauchenoglanis | |
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| Parauchenoglanis longiceps | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Claroteidae |
| Subfamily: | Auchenoglanidinae |
| Genus: | Parauchenoglanis Boulenger, 1911 |
| Type species | |
| Pimelodus guttatus Lönnberg, 1895 | |
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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
- 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.
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