Malapterurus microstoma Poll & Gosse, 1969 Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Colour pattern : Norris, 2002 | Seegers, 2008 .
  • Common names : Smallmouth electric catfish (English), Kleiner Zitterwels (German), Itutula sa bosunga / Itutula sa lyetetele ¨ Itutula sha bosunga / Itutula sha kamba / Tula sa bosunga / Tula sa lyetetele / Tula sha bosunga / Tula sha lyetetele (Kele: Democratic Republic of the Congo), Tula (Lombo: Democratic Republic of the Congo), Tula (So: Democratic Republic of the Congo) .
  • Current distribution known : restricted to the Congo River system; absent from the lowland, central portion of the basin, distributed rather around its periphery; not known from the Mweru-Luapula-Bangweulu system .
  • Food habits : generalist bottom forager, rather than strict piscivorous. Gut content consists of large amounts of plant detritus mixed with animal remains .
  • Food habits_references : Norris, 2002 .
  • Habitat_references : Poll & Gosse, 1969 .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Norris, 2002 | Seegers, 2008 .
  • Size : 555 mm SL .
  • Types :
    • Malapterurus microstoma Poll & Gosse, 1969: 8, pl. 1. Type locality: "Yangambi, fleuve Congo". Holotype MRAC n° 164.701 allotype MRAC n° 164.702; paratypes MRAC n° 1.193 (1), MRAC n° 19.954 (1), MRAC n° 20.827-20.829 (3), MRAC n° 55.629 (1), MRAC n° 58.62658.627 (2), MRAC n° 58.896-58.899 (4), MRAC n° 67.217 (1), MRAC n° 68.737 (1), MRAC n° 69.329 (1), MRAC n° 104.445 (1), MRAC n° 164.703 (1), MRAC n° 164.704-164.705 (2), BMNH n° 1969.9.10: 1 (1).
  • Use and trade : harvested for the aquarium trade .