Polypterus polli Gosse, 1988

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Polypterus palmas (non Ayres, 1850) : Boulenger, 1902 g : 19 (misidentification)Matériaux pour la faune du Congo. Additions à la faune ichthyologique du bassin du Congo..
Polypterus palmas (part.) : Pellegrin, 1928 e : 5 (misidentification)Poissons du Chiloango et du Congo recueillis par l'expédition du Dr. Schouteden (1920-1922). | David & Poll, 1937 : 197 (misidentification)Contribution à la faune ichthyologique du Congo belge : collections du Dr. H. Schouteden (1924-1926) et d'autres récolteurs. | Gosse, 1984 : 25 (synonym of Polypterus palmas congicus) (misidentification)5. Polypteridae..
Polypterus palmas congicus : Poll, 1954 a : 285 (ambiguous, other synonym)Zoogéographie des Protoptères et des Polyptères. | Daget, 1958 e : 2518 (ambiguous, other synonym)Sous-classe des Brachiopterygii. | Daget, 1962 d : 48 (ambiguous, other synonym)Les poissons du Fouta Dialon et de la Basse Guinée. | Gosse, 1984 : 25 (ambiguous, other synonym)5. Polypteridae..
Polypterus palmas polli : Gosse, 1984 : 25 (senior synonym)5. Polypteridae. | Hanssens et al., 1995 : 694, 695, 697, 698, 704, fig. 10 (senior synonym)Subspecies in the Polypterus palmas complex (Brachiopterygii: Polypteridae) from West and Central Africa. | Britz, 2004 : 184 (senior synonym)Polypterus teugelsi, a new species of bichir from the Upper Cross River system in Cameroon (Actinopterygii: Cladistia: Polypteridae). | Schliewen & Schäfer, 2006 : 28, 32, 33, 34 (senior synonym)Polypterus mokelembembe, a new species of bichir from the central Congo River basin (Actinopterygii: Cladistia: Polypteridae). | Suzuki et al., 2010 a : 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 (senior synonym)The mitochondrial phylogeny of an ancient lineage of ray-finned fishes (Polypteridae) with implications for the evolution of body elongation, pelvic fin loss, and craniofacial morphology in Osteichthyes. | Suzuki et al., 2010 b : 2, 3, 4 (senior synonym)The mitochondrial phylogeny of an ancient lineage of ray-finned fishes (Polypteridae) with implications for the evolution of body elongation, pelvic fin loss, and craniofacial morphology in Osteichthyes..
Polypterus polli : Gosse, 1988 : 239-243, fig. 1Révision systématique de deux espèces du genre Polypterus (Pisces, Polypteridae). | Fritzsch & Moller, 1995 : 51-53A history of electroreception. | Hanssens et al., 1995 : 704 (synonym of Polypterus palmas polli)Subspecies in the Polypterus palmas complex (Brachiopterygii: Polypteridae) from West and Central Africa. | Poll & Gosse, 1995 : 28Genera des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique. | Daget et al., 2001 : 116Major discoveries on the dermal skeleton of fossil and recent polypteriforms: a review. | Otero et al., 2006 : 227A new polypterid fish: Polypterus faraou sp. nov. (Cladistia, Polypteridae) from the Late Miocene, Toros-Menalla, Chad. | Near et al., 2013 : 1016, 1017, 1019Boom and bust: ancient and recent diversification in bichirs (Polypteridae: Actinopterygii), a relictual lineage of ray-finned fishes. | Decru, 2015 : 65The ichthyofauna in the Central Congo basin: diversity and distribution in the north-eastern tributaries. | Moritz & Britz, 2019 : 1, 3, 10, 51, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64-68, 69, 77, 88, 90, 92, fig. 47, 48Revision of the extant Polypteridae (Actinopterygii: Cladistia)..

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Colour pattern : Gosse, 1988 | Hanssens et al., 1995 | Moritz & Britz, 2019 .
Common names : Poll's bichir (English), Polli hulkuim (Estonian), Elonga [Kele (Lokele): Democratic Republic of the Congo], Boonga / Shongonga [Kele (Ya Okandja): Democratic Republic of the Congo], Songonga [Kele (Ya Wembe): Democratic Republic of the Congo], Konga (Lingala: Congo), Foonga [Lombo (Olombo): Democratic Republic of the Congo], Nkonga (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Boonga / gogo [So (Eso ): Democratic Republic of the Congo] .
Current distribution known : Congo River basin: Congo River from its mouth upstream to Kisangani; in northern central Congo basin known from several tributaries; in southern central Congo basin recorded only from the Kasai up to confluence with Lulua; no records from southern tributaries of Kasai; in Cameroon, Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo .
Distribution_references : Daget, 1950 a | Daget, 1958 e | Daget, 1962 d | Hanssens et al., 1995 | Moritz & Britz, 2019 | Poll, 1941 c | Poll, 1941 d | Poll, 1942 a | Poll, 1954 a .
Food habits / trophic level : entomophagous fish .
Food habits / trophic level_references : Matthes, 1964 b .
Fossils : Daget et al., 2001 | Otero et al., 2006 .
Genetics : Near et al., 2013 | Suzuki et al., 2010a | Suzuki et al., 2010b .
Habitat / home range : seems to prefer calm and muddy areas of the river .
Habitat_references : Moritz & Britz, 2019 .
Habits_references : Poll, 1959 b .
Morphology / anatomy : Britz, 2004 | Gosse, 1988 | Hanssens et al., 1995 | Moritz & Britz, 2019 .
Phylogeny : Near et al., 2013 | Suzuki et al., 2010a | Suzuki et al., 2010b .
Size : 367 mm SL, 411 mm TL .
Types :
- Polypterus palmas congicus Poll, 1954 a: 285 (designation of a subspecies)| Daget, 1958 e: 2518| Daget, 1962 d: 48.
- Polypterus polli Gosse, 1988: 241-243, fig. 1. Type locality: Eala, rivière Ruki, Republic Democratic of the Congo. Holotype MRAC 47667; paratypes ISNB 3268, MRAC 41649, MRAC 3211, MRAC 3209, MRAC 3216-3219, MRAC 1371-1372, MRAC 30037, MRAC A4694, MRAC 14684.
Use and trade : harvested for human consumption .
Zoological_nomenclature / taxonomic information : Hanssens et al., 1995 .