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Heterobranchus longifilis Valenciennes, 1840 |
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Recherche rapide |
- Heterobranchus longifilis :
Valenciennes, 1840 b : 395Histoire naturelle des poissons.
| Günther, 1864 a : 22Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum, vol. 5 : Physostomi.
| Boulenger, 1905 c : 47A list of freshwater fishes of Africa.
| Boulenger, 1906 c : 566On a collection of fishes from Gallaland.
| Boulenger, 1907 l : 303Zoology of Egypt. The fishes of the Nile published for the Egyptian Government. 2 vol.
| Boulenger, 1908 g : 1095A revision of the African fishes of the subfamily Clariinae.
| Boulenger, 1911 a : 274, fig. 227Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History).
| Boulenger, 1911 k : 222Liste des poissons représentés dans une nouvelle collection de la rivière Sankuru (Kasaï) reçue de M. E. Luja.
| Nichols & Griscom, 1917 : 707, figFresh water fishes of the Congo basin obtained by the American Museum Congo expedition, 1909-1915.
| Pellegrin, 1919 c : 664Nouvelle contribution à la faune ichthyologique du lac Tchad.
| Boulenger, 1920 a : 7Poissons recueillis au Congo belge par l'expédition du Dr. C. Christy.
| Pellegrin, 1922 i : 636Les poissons des eaux douces de l'Afrique occidentale.
| Pellegrin, 1923 b : 167Les poissons des eaux douces de l'Afrique occidentale (du Sénégal au Niger).
| Pellegrin, 1927 g : 217La disparition des nageoires paires chez les poissons africains du groupe des Clariinés.
| Pellegrin, 1927 l : 427Les silurides du bassin du Congo.
| Pellegrin, 1928 e : 8Poissons du Chiloango et du Congo recueillis par l'expédition du Dr. Schouteden (1920-1922).
| Worthington, 1929 b : 80A report on the fishing survey of lakes Albert and Kioga (March to July 1928).
| Holly, 1930 a : 250Synopsis der Süsswasserfische Kameruns.
| Bates, 1932 : 26Notes on freshwater fishes collected in Koinadugu and Kono districts.
| Norman, 1932 : 183A collection of fishes from Sierra Leone.
| Pellegrin, 1932 e : 166Description d'un Chrysichthys géant du Congo.
| Pellegrin, 1933 c : 110Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et P. A. Chappuis en Afrique occidentale française (déc. 1930-mars 1931). IV : Poissons.
| Poll, 1933 a : 130Contribution à la faune ichthyologique du Katanga.
| Svensson, 1933 : 69Fresh-water fishes from the Gambia river (British West Africa). Results of the Swedish expedition 1931.
| Nichols & LaMonte, 1934 : 2More new fishes from the Kasaï district of the Belgian Congo.
| David, 1935 a : 294Poissons de Kapanga (Katanga).
| David, 1935 b : 98Die Entwicklung der Clariiden und ihre Verbreitung. Eine anatomisch- systematische Untersuchung.
| Worthington & Ricardo, 1936 b : 1098The fish of Lake Tanganyika (other than Cichlidae).
| David & Poll, 1937 : 230Contribution à la faune ichthyologique du Congo belge : collections du Dr. H. Schouteden (1924-1926) et d'autres récolteurs.
| Brien, 1938 : 129La plaine du Kamolondo, son aspect naturel, sa faune, ses feux de brousse.
| Marlier, 1938 : 173Considérations sur les organes accessoires servant à la respiration aérienne chez les Téléostéens.
| Poll, 1938 b : 403Poissons du Katanga (bassin du Congo) récoltés par le Professeur Paul Brien.
| Poll, 1939 e : 36Les poissons du Stanley-Pool.
| Ricardo-Bertram, 1943 : 208The fishes of the Bangweulu Region.
| Poll, 1946 : 228Révision de la faune ichthyologique du lac Tanganika.
| Vleeschouwers, 1946 Note sur la pêche dans le district du lac Léopold II (rivières Kasaï et Fimi).
| Bertin & Estève
, 1950 b : 46Catalogue des types de poissons du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 5e partie, Ostariophysaires (Siluriformes.)
| Daget, 1950 c : 58Poissons d'eau douce de la région côtière du Togo et du Dahomey.
| Poll, 1950 b : 124Histoire du peuplement et origine des espèces de la faune ichthyologique du lac Tanganika.
| Sandon, 1950 : 41An illustrated guide to the freshwater fishes of the Sudan.
| Daget, 1951 b : 1145Poissons d'eau douce nouvellement entrés dans les collections de l'I.F.A.N.
| Willem, 1951 : 1Contributions à l'étude des organes respiratoires chez les téléostéens Clarias et Heterobranchus.
| Copley, 1952 a : 218, fig. 146The game fishes of Africa.
| Jubb, 1952 b : 4Notes on freshwater fishes in Southern Rhodesia.
| Poll, 1953 a : 746Poissons non Cichlidae. Exploration Hydrobiologique du Lac Tanganika (1946-1947).
| Sandon & Amin Al Tayib, 1953 : 218The food of some common Nile fish.
| Daget, 1954 : 226, fig. 87Les poissons du Niger supérieur.
| Johnels, 1954 : 395Notes on fishes from the Gambia river.
| Jubb, 1954 b : 697A note on a collection of freshwater fishes being prepared for the Queen Victoria Museum.
| Blanc & Daget, 1957 : 144Les eaux et les poissons de Haute-Volta.
| Ford, 1957 : 1115River fishing thrills in Tanganyika.
| Greenwood, 1957 b : 72The fishes of Uganda. III.
| Poll, 1957 a : 115, fig. 207-208Les genres des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique.
| Copley, 1958 : 92, fig. 49Common freshwater fishes of East Africa.
| Jubb, 1958 d : 181A preliminary report on the collections of freshwater fishes made by the Bernard Carp expeditions to the Caprivi Strip, 1949, the lower Sabi river, 1950, and to Barotseland, 1952.
| Lambert, 1958 : 40Poissons siluriformes et cyprinodontiformes récoltés en Guinée Francçaise, avec la description d'une nouvelle espèce de Microsynodontis.
| Poll, 1958 b : 634La faune Ichthyologique du Congo.
| Daget, 1960 b : 616La faune ichthyologique du bassin de la Gambie.
| Daget, 1960 e : 325Poissons de la Volta Noire et de la Haute Comoé (Mission d'Aubenton- Arnoult. oct.-déc. 1959).
| Soulsby, 1960 b : 320Some Congo basin fishes of Northern Rhodesia.
| Campana-Rouget, 1961 : 51Nématodes de poissons.
| Daget, 1961 e : 347Le parc national du Niokolo-Koba. Fasc. 2 (35) : Poissons.
| Daget, 1961 h : 510Contribution à la connaissance de la faune du fleuve Sénégal. Poissons du Baoulé et du Bakoy.
| Gras, 1961 : 578Liste des poissons du Bas Dahomey, faisant partie de la collection du laboratoire d'hydrobiologie du service des eaux, forêts et chasses du Dahomey.
| Jubb, 1961 b : 109An illustrated guide to the freshwater fishes of the Zambezi river, Lake Kariba, Pungwe, Sabi, Lundi and Limpopo rivers.
| Daget, 1962 d : 123Les poissons du Fouta Dialon et de la Basse Guinée.
| Daget & Stauch, 1963 a : 102Poissons de la partie camerounaise du bassin de la Bénoué.
| Daget & Stauch, 1963 b : 45Poissons de la rive droite du Moyen Congo. Mission A. Stauch (Février - Avril, 1961).
| Gosse, 1963 : 204Le milieu aquatique et l'écologie des poissons dans la région de Yangambi.
| Holden, 1963 : 13The populations of fish in dry season pools of the River Sokoto.
| Jubb, 1963 c : 27A revised list of the freshwater fishes of southern Africa.
| Blache et al., 1964 : 180Les poissons du bassin du Tchad et du bassin adjacent du Mayo-Kebbi. Etude systématique et biologique.
| Matthes, 1964 b : 99Les poissons du lac Tumba et de la région d'Ikela. Etude systématique et écologique.
| Daget & Iltis, 1965 : 170, fig. 103Poissons de Côte d'Ivoire (eaux douces et saumâtres).
| Bell-Cross, 1966 a : 13The distribution of fishes in Central Africa.
| Bell-Cross, 1966 c : 98Physical barriers separating the fishes of the Kafue and Middle Zambesi river system.
| Greenwood, 1966 a : 85The fishes of Uganda. Second, revised edition.
| Poll, 1967 b : 217, figContribution à la faune ichthyologique de l'Angola. Companhia de diamantes de Angola (Museo do Dundo).
| Fischthal & Thomas, 1968 : 126Digenetic trematodes of some freshwater and marine fishes from Ghana.
| Gosse, 1968 : 33Les poissons du bassin de l'Ubangi.
| Lelek, 1968 : 245The Vertical Distribution of Fishes in the Ebo Stream and Notes to the Fish Occurence in the Lake Bosumtwi, Ashanti, Ghana.
| Brown et al., 1969 : 23Kariba.
| Reynolds, 1969 b : 15Field Key to commercial fishes of the Volta Lake.
| Anonymous, 1971 b : 17F. A. O.'s current field projects in aquaculture.
| Reizer, 1971 : 90Contribution à l'étude hydrobiologique du Bas-Sénégal. Premières recommandations d'aménagement halieutique.
| Balon, 1972 a : 1Man-made creation, Lake Kariba on Zambezi River. Assessment of fish production and justification for ecosystem change.
| Bell-Cross, 1972 b : 5The fish fauna of the Zambesi River system.
| Lowe-Mcconnell, 1972 : 15Keys for the field identification of freshwater fishes likely to occur in or above the new man-made Lakes, Lake Volta in Ghana and the Kainji Lake on the River Niger in Nigeria.
| Bell-Cross, 1973 a : 9The fish fauna of the Buzi River system in Rhodesia and Moçambique.
| Bell-Cross, 1973 b : 11Fishes.
| Balon, 1974 a : 39Fishes of Lake Kariba, Africa.
| Balon, 1974 b : 655Fishes of the edge of Victoria Falls, Africa : demise of a physical barrier for downstream invasions.
| Frank, 1974 : 325The spotted squeater Synodontis nebulosus, the butter catfish Schilbe mystus, the vundu Heterobranchus longifilis and the electric catfish Malapterurus electricus.
| Latif, 1974 : 69, fig. 40Fisheries of Lake Nasser.
| Bell-Cross, 1975 a : 3Angling records Rhodesian freshwater fishes.
| Bell-Cross, 1975 b : 4Check list of Rhodesian fishes including the first internationally accepted list of standardised common names.
| Micha, 1975 a : 176La pisciculture africaine : espèces actuelles et espèces nouvelles.
| Bell-Cross, 1976 a : 5The fishes of Rhodesia.
| Bell-Cross, 1976 d : 11The distribution of fishes in Rhodesian River Systems.
| Poll, 1976 b : 84Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba. Mission G. F. de Witte: Poissons.
| Roberts & Stewart, 1976 : 252An ecological and systematic survey of fishes in the rapids of the lower Zaïre or Congo River.
| Baylis, 1977 : 117Changes in species compositions of the yields and catch per effort during the development of the fishery at Lake Turkana, Kenya.
| Sydenham, 1977 : 983The qualitative composition and longitudinal zonation of the fish fauna of the River Ogun, Western Nigeria.
| Mitchell, 1978 : 170The diurnal activity patterns and depth zonation of marginal fish as shown by gillnetting in Lake Kariba.
| Banister & Bailey, 1979 : 233Fishes collected by the Zaïre river expedition 1974-1975.
| Adebisi, 1981 : 169Analyses of the stomach contents of the piscivorous fishes of the Upper Ogun River in Nigeria.
| Bianco, 1981 : 56Fish.
| Daget & Durand, 1981 : 742Poissons.
| Bruton et al., 1982 : 56Pocket guide to the freshwater fishes of Southern Africa.
| Marshall et al., 1982 : 225Fisheries and fish production on the Zimbabwean side of Lake Kariba.
| Legendre, 1986 : 201-212Seasonal changes in sexual maturity and fecundity, and HCG-induced breeding of the catfish, Heterobranchus longifilis Val. (Clariidae), reared in Ebrie lagoon (Ivory coast).
| Teugels, 1986 a : 99-10034. Clariidae.
| Bell-Cross & Minshull, 1988 : 205-207The fishes of Zimbabwe.
| Mérona (de) et al., 1988 : 199Croissance des poissons d'eau douce africains (Growth of African freshwater fishes).
| Teugels et al., 1988 : 225État des connaissances sur la faune ichtyologique des bassins côtiers de Côte d'Ivoire et de l'ouest du Ghana.
| Burgess, 1989 : 147An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes. A preliminary survey of the Siluriformes.
| De Vos et al., 1989 : 56Résultats préliminaires d'un inventaire systematique et d'une étude du régime alimentaire des poissons des environs de l'ile Kungulu.
| Lévêque et al., 1989 : 119Inventaire taxinomique et distribution des poissons d'eau douce des bassins côtiers de Guinée et de Guinée Bissau.
| Paugy & Bénech, 1989 : 303Les poissons d'eau douce des bassins côtiers du Togo (Afrique de l'Ouest).
| Paugy et al., 1990 a : 340Freshwater fishes of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Annotated checklist and distribution.
| Teugels et al., 1990 : 245-248, fig. 6A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Heterobranchus Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 1809 (Pisces: Clariidae).
| Robins et al., 1991 : 64World fishes important to North Americans. Exclusive of species from the continental waters of the United States and Canada.
| Vivien, 1991 : 106Faune du Cameroun. Guide des mammifères et des poissons.
| Kolding et al., 1992 : 39, 40Growth, mortality, maturity and length-weight parameters of fishes in Lake Kariba, Africa.
| Legendre et al., 1992 : 59-61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 74-76A comparative study on morphology, growth rate and reproduction of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822), Heterobranchus longifilis Valenciennes, 1840, and their reciprocal hybrids (Pisces, Clariidae).
| Teugels, 1992 a : 472, fig. 27.627. Clariidae.
| Teugels et al., 1992 a : 81-85A karyologial analysis of the artificial hybridization between Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) and Heterobranchus longifilis Valenciennes, 1840 (Pisces; Clariidae).
| Teugels et al., 1992 b : 89, 93Enzymatic variation in African clariid catfishes.
| Skelton, 1993 b : 236-237, fig.A complete guide to the freshwater fishes of southern Africa.
| Bailey, 1994 : 957Guide to the fishes of the River Nile in the Republic of the Sudan.
| Paugy et al., 1994 : 62Faune ichtyologique des eaux douces d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
| Klinkhardt et al., 1995 : 92Database of fish chromosomes.
| Poll & Gosse, 1995 : 191Genera des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique.
| Seegers, 1996 : 211-212, fig. 151The fishes of the Lake Rukwa drainage.
| Inyang et al., 1997 : 373-378Aspects of the reproduction biology of Heterobranchus longifilis (Valenciennes, 1840) in the Idodo River Basin, southeastern Nigeria.
| Olaosebikan & Raji, 1998 : 88Field guide to Nigerian freshwater fishes.
| Anseaume & Teugels, 1999 : 416On the rehabilitation of the clariid catfish genus Bathyclarias endemic to the East African Rift Lake Malawi.
| Dankwa et al., 1999 : 35Freshwater fishes of Ghana: identification, distribution, ecological and economic importance.
| Nsiku, 1999 : 169Changes in the fisheries of Lake Malawi, 1976-1996: ecosystem-based analysis.
| Agnèse & Teugels, 2001 a : 548, 549, 550, 551Genetic evidence for monophyly of the genus Heterobranchus and paraphyly of the genus Clarias (Siluriformes, Clariidae).
| Agnèse & Teugels, 2001 b : 684, 685The Bathyclarias-Clarias species flock. A new model to understand rapid speciation in African Great lakes.
| Anibeze, 2001 : 302-306Osteological and morphometric polymorphism in the clariid catfishes of the genera Heterobranchus Geoffroy St. Hilaire and Clarias Scopoli.
| De Vos et al., 2001 b : 131L'ichtyofaune du bassin de la Malagarasi (système du Lac Tanganyika): une synthèse de la connaissance actuelle.
| Skelton, 2001 : 236-237, fig.A complete guide to the freshwater fishes of southern Africa.
| Okeyo, 2003 a : 260Taxonomy, common names and distribution of fish in the eastern arm of the Rift Valley drainage, Kenya.
| Oti, 2003 a : 126Studies on the ichthyofauna of Ehoma Floodplain, Afikpo Eastern Nigeria.
| Risch, 2003 e : 148-149, fig. 28.628. Clariidae.
| Seegers et al., 2003 : 38Annotated checklist of the freshwater fishes of Kenya (excluding the lacustrine haplochromines from Lake Victoria).
| Konan et al., 2006 : 365Spatio-temporal patterns of fish assemblages in coastal West African rivers: a self-organizing map approach.
| Coulibaly et al., 2007 : 157-163Évaluation de l'effet d'un système de refuge sur la survie et la croissance des alevins de Heterobranchus longifilis élevés en cage flottante.
| Ferraris, 2007 : 151Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types.
| Getahun, 2007 c : 95An overview of the diversity and conservation status of the Ethiopian freshwater fauna.
| Konan et al., 2007 : 53Weight-length relationship of 57 fish species of the coastal rivers in South-eastern of Ivory Coast.
| Teugels, 2007 c : 655-656, fig. 22.222. Clariidae: Heterobranchus.
| Offem et al., 2008 b : 135Reproductive aspects of common freshwater fishes in the Cross River, Nigeria.
| Seegers, 2008 a : 267-268, fig.The catfishes of Africa: A handbook for identification and maintenance.
| Marshall, 2011 : 166-168, fig.The fishes of Zimbabwe and their biology.
| Monsembula Iyaba & Stiassny, 2013 : 254Fishes of the Salonga National Park (Congo basin, central Africa): a list of species collected in the Luilaka, Salonga, and Yenge Rivers (Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo).
| Van Steenberge et al., 2013 : 335The fishes of the Upper Luapula area (Congo basin): a fauna of mixed origin.
| Decru, 2015 : 41The ichthyofauna in the Central Congo basin: diversity and distribution in the north-eastern tributaries.
| Moelants, 2015 : 75Diversity 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).
| Okeyo & Ojwang, 2015 : 162A photographic guide to freshwater fishes of Kenya.
| Neumann et al., 2016 : 297, 306, 315Annotated checklist for fishes of the Main Nile Basin in the Sudan and Egypt based on recent specimen records (2006-2015).
| Skelton, 2019 : 234Chapter 11. The freshwater fishes of Angola.
| Schedel et al., 2022 : 10New phylogenetic insights into the African catfish families Mochokidae and Austroglanididae..
- Heterobranchus laticeps :
Peters, 1852 : 682 (junior synonym)Diagnosen von neuen Fluss-Fischen aus Mossambique.
| Günther, 1864 a : 23 (junior synonym)Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum, vol. 5 : Physostomi.
| Peters, 1868 a : 37, fig. 1 (junior synonym)Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt. Zoologie. IV. Flussfische.
| Boulenger, 1901 q : 265 (junior synonym)Les poissons du bassin du Congo.
| Boulenger, 1902 g : 21 (junior synonym)Matériaux pour la faune du Congo. Additions à la faune ichthyologique du bassin du Congo.
| Boulenger, 1905 c : 47 (junior synonym)A list of freshwater fishes of Africa.
| Boulenger, 1907 l : 305 (synonymy with H. longifilis) (junior synonym)Zoology of Egypt. The fishes of the Nile published for the Egyptian Government. 2 vol.
| Boulenger, 1908 g : 1095 (junior synonym)A revision of the African fishes of the subfamily Clariinae.
| Goffin, 1909 : 88 (junior synonym)Les pêcheries et les poissons du Congo belge.
| Boulenger, 1911 a : 274 (junior synonym)Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History).
| Teugels, 1986 a : 100 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)34. Clariidae.
| Teugels et al., 1990 : 248 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Heterobranchus Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 1809 (Pisces: Clariidae).
| Seegers, 1996 : 211 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)The fishes of the Lake Rukwa drainage.
| Ferraris, 2007 : 151 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types..
- Clarias loangwensis :
Worthington, 1933 b : 46, fig. (junior synonym)The fishes (other than Cichlidae) of lake Bangweulu and adjoining regions, including descriptions of three new species.
| Teugels et al., 1990 : 248 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Heterobranchus Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 1809 (Pisces: Clariidae).
| Seegers, 1996 : 211 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)The fishes of the Lake Rukwa drainage.
| Ferraris, 2007 : 151 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types..
- Heterobranchus platycephalus :
Nichols & LaMonte, 1934 : 2, fig. 2 (junior synonym)More new fishes from the Kasaï district of the Belgian Congo.
| David, 1935 b : 98 (synonymy with H. longifilis) (junior synonym)Die Entwicklung der Clariiden und ihre Verbreitung. Eine anatomisch- systematische Untersuchung.
| Teugels, 1986 a : 100 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)34. Clariidae.
| Teugels et al., 1990 : 248 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Heterobranchus Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 1809 (Pisces: Clariidae).
| Seegers, 1996 : 211 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)The fishes of the Lake Rukwa drainage.
| Ferraris, 2007 : 151 (synonym of Heterobranchus longifilis) (junior synonym)Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types..
Attributs
- DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
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Aquaculture_farming :
Skelton, 1993
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Skelton, 2001
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Aquariology :
Seegers, 2008
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Behaviour / ethology :
most active at night
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Chromosomes :
Klinkhardt et al., 1995
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Teugels et al., 1992a
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Teugels et al., 1992b
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Colour pattern :
Seegers, 1996
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Seegers, 2008
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Skelton, 1993
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Skelton, 2001
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Teugels, 1992a
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Teugels, 2003a
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Teugels et al., 2007
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Common names :
Fusan (Nupe: Nigeria), Vundu (Nyanja: Malawi), Nhumi (Sena: Mozambique), Coro (Shilluk: Sudan), Su (So: Republic Democratic of the Congo), Pondo (Swahili: Republic Democratic of the Congo), Pondo / Vundu (Swahili: Tanzania), Labe (Turkana: Kenya), Biblique (Wolof: Senegal), Aso (Yoruba: Nigeria), Ngaru (Zande: Sudan)
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Vundu (Afrikaans), Surta (Arabic), Sampa / Vundu (Bemba: Zambia), Lenda / Tshota mualwa (Chokwe: Angola), Vundu-malle (Danish), Cur (Dinka, Northeastern: Sudan), Catfish / Sampa / Vundu (English), Wonyi (Ewe: Ghana), Oliiviahmattimonni / Viiksiankeriasmonni (Finnish), Denor (Ga: Ghana), Ramboshi (Hausa: Nigeria), Azu isii (Igbo: Nigeria), Toruye (Ijo: Nigeria), Kairo (Kanuri: Nigeria), Isu / Lifo / Lifonde / Sumi (Kele: Republic Democratic of the Congo), Giyoko / Seega (Mooré: Burkina Faso)
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Current distribution known :
a very wide-ranging uncommon species with an almost Pan-African distribution
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Fisheries / overfishing :
Marshall, 2011
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Food habits :
feeding on any available food, including invertebrates and insects when small, fish and other small vertebrates when large; scavenges off large carcasses and offal from riverside villages
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Food habits_references :
Marshall, 2011
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Sandon & Amin al Tayib, 1953
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Seegers, 1996
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Seegers, 2008
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Skelton, 1993
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Skelton, 2001
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Teugels et al., 1990
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Genetics :
Schedel et al., 2022
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Growth / growth performance :
Legendre et al., 1992
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Marshall, 2011
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Habitat / home range :
uncommon species which inhabits large rivers. Largest freshwater species in southern Africa; occurs in large deep rivers within the mainstream or in deep pools and lakes or backwaters
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Habitat_references :
Skelton, 1993
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Skelton, 2001
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Teugels et al., 1990
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Hybridization :
Legendre et al., 1992
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Life span :
lives for 12 or more years
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Morphology / anatomy :
Anibeze, 2001
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Legendre et al., 1992
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Marshall, 2011
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Seegers, 1996
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Seegers, 2008
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Skelton, 1993
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Skelton, 2001
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Teugels, 1992a
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Teugels, 2003a
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Teugels et al., 2007
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Parasites :
Marshall, 2011
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Phylogeny :
Schedel et al., 2022
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Physiology / metabolism :
Legendre, 1986
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Reproduction_references :
Inyang et al., 1997
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Legendre et al., 1992
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Marshall, 2011
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Seegers, 1996
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Seegers, 2008
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Skelton, 1993
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Skelton, 2001
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Size :
1500 mm TL, 55.0 kg
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Types :
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Clarias loangwensis Worthington, 1933b: 46, fig. Type locality: Loangwa River, Zambezi River system, southeastern Africa, elevation 1350 feet. Holotype: BMNH 1932.12.16.501.
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Heterobranchus laticeps Peters, 1852: 682. Type locality: "Tette, Boror (Mossambique)". Holotype ZMHU.
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Heterobranchus longifilis Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840: 395. Type locality: "Nil (Egypte)". Holotype MNHN n° B.273.
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Heterobranchus platycephalus Nichols & LaMonte, 1934: 2, fig. 2. Type locality: "Luluabourg, Kasaï District, Belgian Congo". Holotype AMNH n° 12.356.
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Use and trade :
harvested for human consumption and has been introduced into aquaculture. It is a popular angling target in the Zambezi River
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Zoological_nomenclature / taxonomic information :
Teugels et al., 1990
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