Bathybagrus platycephalus (Worthington & Ricardo, 1936)

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Bathybagrus platycephalus : Mo, 1991 : 151Anatomy and systematics of Bagridae (Teleostei) and siluroid phylogeny. | Seegers, 2008 a : 60, fig.The catfishes of Africa: A handbook for identification and maintenance..
Chrysichthys platycephalus : Worthington & Ricardo, 1936 b : 1092, fig. 6A-B (senior synonym)The fish of Lake Tanganyika (other than Cichlidae). | David & Poll, 1937 : 266 (senior synonym)Contribution à la faune ichthyologique du Congo belge : collections du Dr. H. Schouteden (1924-1926) et d'autres récolteurs. | Poll, 1946 : 212 (senior synonym)Révision de la faune ichthyologique du lac Tanganika. | Hulot, 1950 b : 151 (senior synonym)Le régime alimentaire des poissons du Centre africain. Intérêt éventuel de ces poissons en vue d'une zootechnie économique au Congo belge. | Poll, 1953 a : 119 (senior synonym)Poissons non Cichlidae. Exploration Hydrobiologique du Lac Tanganika (1946-1947). | Matthes, 1962 a : 5 (senior synonym)L'exploration sous-lacustre du lac Tanganika. | Coulter, 1966 b : 38 (senior synonym)The deep benthic fishes at the South of Lake Tanganyika with special reference to distribution and feeding in Bathybates species, Hemibates stenosoma and Chrysichthys species. | Jayaram, 1966 : 1085 (senior synonym)Contributions to the study of the fishes of the family Bagridae. A systematic account of the African genera with a new classification of the family. | Bell-Cross & Kaoma, 1971 : 240 (senior synonym)Additions and amendments to the checklist of the fishes of Zambia. 3. | Lowe-Mcconnell, 1975 : 157 (senior synonym)Fish communities in tropical freshwaters. Their distribution, ecology and evolution. | Bailey & Stewart, 1984 : 6, 8, 20 (senior synonym)Bagrid catfishes from Lake Tanganyika with a key and descriptions of new taxa. | Risch, 1986 : 25 (senior synonym)31. Bagridae. | Burgess, 1989 : 67 (senior synonym)An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes. A preliminary survey of the Siluriformes. | Eccles, 1992 : 59, 123, fig. (senior synonym)FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Field guide to the commercial marine and brackish-water species of Tanzania. | De Vos et al., 1996 : 15 (senior synonym)Trematocara zebra (Perciformes; Cichlidae), nouvelle espèce du nord-ouest du lac Tanganyika (Zaïre). | Ferraris, 2007 : 158 (senior synonym)Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. | Hardman, 2008 a : 45, fig. 3 (senior synonym)A new species of catfish genus Chrysichthys from Lake Tanganyika (Siluriformes: Claroteidae)..

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DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
Colour pattern : Seegers, 2008 .
Current distribution known : endemic to Lake Tanganyika where it is widely distributed along the littoral zone .
Food habits : juveniles feed on larvae (particularly mosquito larvae), plant seeds, and crustaceans. With increasing age these catfishes also prey on other fishes .
Food habits_references : Seegers, 2008 .
Habitat / home range : a benthic species mainly restricted to the coastal shallow rocky areas .
Morphology / anatomy : Seegers, 2008 .
Size : 220 mm TL .
Types :
- Chrysichthys platycephalus Worthington & Ricardo, 1936 b: 1092, fig. 6 A-B. Type locality: "Usumbura, Mpulungu-Niamkolo and the estuary of the Ngere River". Syntypes BMNH n° 1936.6.15: 849 to 877.