Malapterurus monsembeensis Roberts, 2000

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Malopterurus electricus (non Gmelin, 1789) (part.) : Boulenger, 1902 g : 21 (misidentification)Matériaux pour la faune du Congo. Additions à la faune ichthyologique du bassin du Congo. | Boulenger, 1911 a : 511 (misidentification)Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). | Nichols & Griscom, 1917 : 723 (misidentification)Fresh water fishes of the Congo basin obtained by the American Museum Congo expedition, 1909-1915. | Poll, 1933 a : 137 (misidentification)Contribution à la faune ichthyologique du Katanga. | Poll, 1938 b : 405 (misidentification)Poissons du Katanga (bassin du Congo) récoltés par le Professeur Paul Brien. | Matthes, 1964 b : 125 (misidentification)Les poissons du lac Tumba et de la région d'Ikela. Etude systématique et écologique..
Malopterurus electricus (non Gmelin, 1789) : Boulenger, 1920 a : 7 (misidentification)Poissons recueillis au Congo belge par l'expédition du Dr. C. Christy. | Brien, 1938 : 129 (misidentification)La plaine du Kamolondo, son aspect naturel, sa faune, ses feux de brousse..
Malapterurus electricus (non Gmelin, 1789) (part) : Boeseman, 1957 : 147 (misidentification)On a collection of fishes from the Stanley Pool (Belgian Congo). | Poll, 1959 b : 199 (misidentification)Recherches écologiques sur la faune ichthyologique du Stanley-Pool. | Poll, 1959 c : 137 (misidentification)Recherches sur la faune ichthyologique de la Région du Stanley Pool. | Gosse, 1968 : 46 (misidentification)Les poissons du bassin de l'Ubangi. | Poll & Gosse, 1969 : 5, fig. la, 2a, pl. 2a, 3a (misidentification)Révision des Malapteruridae et description d'une deuxième espèce de silure électrique : Malapterurus microstoma. | Banister & Bailey, 1979 : 235 (misidentification)Fishes collected by the Zaïre river expedition 1974-1975..
Malapterurus electricus (non Gmelin, 1789) : Poll, 1967 b : 273, fig. 130 (misidentification)Contribution à la faune ichthyologique de l'Angola. Companhia de diamantes de Angola (Museo do Dundo). | Poll, 1976 b : 100 (misidentification)Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba. Mission G. F. de Witte: Poissons..
Malapterurus minjiriya (non Sagua, 1987) (part.) : Sagua, 1987 : 88 (misidentification)On a new species of electric catfish from Kainji, Nigeria, with some observations on its biology..
Malapterurus monsembeensis : Roberts, 2000 : 9A review of the African electric catfish family Malapteruridae, with descriptions of new species. | Ferraris, 2007 : 302Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. | Decru, 2015 : 40The ichthyofauna in the Central Congo basin: diversity and distribution in the north-eastern tributaries. | Moelants, 2015 : 74Diversity and ecology of the ichthyofauna of the Middle and Upper Congo basin: a case-study in the region of the Wagenia falls (Democratic Republic of the Congo). | Skelton, 2019 : 234Chapter 11. The freshwater fishes of Angola..
Malapterurus gossei : Norris, 2002 : 102-108, fig. 60, 62, 63 (junior synonym)A revision of the African electric catfishes, family Malapteruridae (Teleostei, Siluriformes), with erection of a new genus and descriptions of fourteen new species, and an annotated bibliography. | Ferraris, 2007 : 302 (questionably a synonym of Malaperurus monsembeensis) (junior synonym)Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. | Seegers, 2008 a : 288, fig. (junior synonym)The catfishes of Africa: A handbook for identification and maintenance. | Mbimbi Mayi Munene & Stiassny, 2011 : 698 (junior synonym)Fishes of the Kwilu River (Kasai basin, central Africa): a list of species collected in the vicinity of Kikwit, Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo..

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DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
Colour pattern : Norris, 2002 | Roberts, 2000 | Seegers, 2008 .
Current distribution known : widely distributed in the Congo River system .
Food habits : opportunistic carnivorous: fishes and aquatic invertebrates .
Food habits_references : Norris, 2002 .
Morphology / anatomy : Norris, 2002 | Roberts, 2000 | Seegers, 2008 .
Parasites : Norris, 2002 .
Size : 580 mm SL .
Types :
- Malapterurus gossei Norris, 2002: 102-108, fig. 60, 62, 63. Type locality: Congo River basin, Kinshasa (= Léopoldville), Democratic Republic of Congo (04°20'S-15°15'E). Holotype MRAC 88017; paratypes: AMNH 6475, IRSNB 20475, MCZ 50146, 50426, MRAC 1191, 71405-71406, 93788, 96136-96137, 162367, 164967, 189276, 79.001.P.4809, 86.021.P.0131, CAS-SU 64616.
- Malapterurus monsembeensis Roberts, 2000: 0. Type locality: Upper Congo at Monsembe. Holotype BMNH 1899.8.22.6.