Clarias liocephalus Boulenger, 1898 Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Aquariology : Seegers, 2008 .
  • Colour pattern : Marshall, 2011 | Seegers, 1996 | Seegers, 2008 | Skelton, 1993 | Skelton, 2001 | Skelton & Teugels, 1991 .
  • Common names : Sagkobaber (Afrikaans), Emale (Chiga: Uganda), Smooth-head catfish (English), Mokkakonnamonni (Finnish), Nsonzi (Kenyi: Uganda), Eyisombi (Konzo: Uganda), Nduri (Luo: Kenya), Igihoro/ Ishonzi / Isombe / Umugorora / Umukubengeri (Rwanda: Rwanda), Kambale / Malagarazi (Swahili: Tanzania), Tukpe (Zande: Sudan) .
  • Current distribution known : Lake Victoria, Edward, George, small lakes of Uganda, Lake Kivu, smaller lakes of Rwanda, Lake Tanganyika, in Malawi, Kagera, Malagarazi and Ruzizi Rivers. Also in Lake Rukwa and in Luapula and Lualaba River drainages (Congo River basin). Present in Cunene, Okavango, upper Zambezi, and Kafue systems .
  • Fisheries / overfishing : Greenwood, 1957 b | Greenwood, 1958 c .
  • Food habits : omnivorous, feeding on insect larvae and sometimes also fishes .
  • Food habits_references : Achten, 1981 | Breder & Rosen, 1966 | Copley, 1958 | Corbet, 1961 | Greenwood, 1957 b | Greenwood, 1958 c | Greenwood, 1966 a | Mahy, 1977 | Seegers, 1996 | Seegers, 2008 | Worthington & Ricardo, 1936 b | Yatuha et al., 2012 .
  • Habitat / home range : occurs in marginal water-lily and papyrus swamps as well as in marginal weed beds; abundant in high mountain streams and torrents and on the bottom among stones; not found in any situation lower than about 915 m above sea level nor in water of a higher temperature than 18 °C In the Rukwa and Malawi drainage they are sometimes found in very cold upland streams .
  • Habitat_references : Marshall, 2011 | Seegers, 1996 | Seegers, 2008 .
  • Habits_references : Copley, 1958 | Greenwood, 1957 b | Greenwood, 1958 c | Greenwood, 1966 a | Jackson, 1959 b | Jackson, 1961 b .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Marshall, 2011 | Seegers, 1996 | Seegers, 2008 | Skelton, 1993 | Skelton, 2001 | Skelton & Teugels, 1991 .
  • Size : 320 mm TL .
  • Types :
    • Clarias carsonii Boulenger, 1903 d: 362. Type locality: "Fwambo, British Central Africa". Holotype BMNH n° 1894.12.20: 20.
    • Clarias liocephalus Boulenger, 1898 e: 24, fig. Type locality: "Kinyamkolo, Lake Tanganyika". Holotype BMNH n° 1898.9.9: 70; paratype BMNH n° 1898.9.9: 71.
    • Clarias neumanni Hilgendorf, 1905: 409. Type locality: "Utim, im Guasso Nyiro". Holotype Nairobi Museum (Kenya).
    • Clarias ornatus Poll, 1943 b: 306. Type locality: "Bururi, Haute Malagarazi (Lac Tanganyika)". Holotype MRAC n° 56.002.
    • Clarias phillipsi Norman, 1925 b: 189, pl. 11. Type locality: "Lake Chahafi, S. O. Uganda". Holotype MCZ n° 31.519.
    • Clarias submarginatus liocephalus David, 1935 a: 294 (No type specimen).
    • Clarias youngicus Ricardo-Bertram, 1943: 208. Type locality: "Lake Young Shiwa Ngandu (Bangweulu region)". Syntypes BMNH n° 1943.7.27: 377-82 (6).
  • Use and trade : harvested for human consumption. High demand for sale as live bait in the Nile Perch fishery of Lake Victoria and equally important in the diet of local communities in the lake basin .