Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger, 1906

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Petrocephalus degeni : Boulenger, 1906 b : 434Descriptions of new fishes discovered by Mr. E. Degen in Lake Victoria. | Boulenger, 1907 l : 39, pl. 10, fig. 1Zoology of Egypt. The fishes of the Nile published for the Egyptian Government. 2 vol. | Boulenger, 1909 a : 58, fig. 43Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). | Steindachner, 1916 : 62Bericht über die ichthyologischen Aufsammlungen der Brüder Adolf und Albin Horn während einer im Sommer 1913 ausgeführten Reise nach Deutsch-Ostafrika. | Cunnington, 1920 : 524The fauna of the African lakes : a study in comparative limnology with special reference to Tanganyika. | Greenwood, 1955 a : 153The fishes of Uganda. I. | Greenwood, 1956 a : 137, fig. 9The fishes of Uganda. II. | Copley, 1958 : 46, fig. 18Common freshwater fishes of East Africa. | Whitehead & Greenwood, 1959 : 284Mormyrid fishes of the genus Petrocephalus in Eastern Africa with a redescription of Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra). | Fowler, 1975 : 17A catalog of World fishes (22). | Gosse, 1984 d : 111 (synonym of Petrocephalus catostoma catostoma)16. Mormyridae. | Seegers, 1996 : 82 (synonym of Petrocephalus catostoma)The fishes of the Lake Rukwa drainage. | Kramer et al., 2012 : 2179, 2181, 2182, 2189, 2196, 2202, 2207, 2208, 2210-2214, 2235-2236, 2257, fig. 2B27A critical revision of the churchill snoutfish, genus Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Momyridae), from southern and eastern Africa, with the recognition of Petrocephalus tanensis, and the description of five new species..

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DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
Common names : Degeni kivipeakala (Estonian) .
Current distribution known : only known from the holotype collected from the mouth of the Katonga River (Lake Victoria basin) in Uganda .
Food habits : feeds on algae, plankton and small underwater insects .
Food habits_references : Copley, 1958 .
Morphology / anatomy : Kramer et al., 2012 .
Size : 81 mm SL .
Types :
- Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger, 1906 b: 434. Type locality: "Mouth of the Katonga River" Lake Victoria. Holotype BMNH 1906.5.30:84.