Caecobarbus geertsii Boulenger, 1921 Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Biology : Petit & Besnard, 1937 | Thinès, 1953 | Thinès, 1954 .
  • Chromosomes : Rab et al., 1995 .
  • Common names : Parmicka slepa (Czech), Blind hulebarbe (Danish), African blind barb / African blind barb fish / Congo Blind Barb (English), Kongo koopapardkala (Estonian), Sokkobarbi (Finnish), Barbu aveugle / Poisson cavernicole d'Afrique (French), Blinde Höhlenbarbe (German), Nzonzi a mpofo (Kikongo: Republic Democartic of the Congo), Grottbarb (Swedish) .
  • Current distribution known : only known from the Mbanzagungu caves (Thysville), lower Congo River system (ca. 5°S-15°E), Democratic Republic of the Congo .
  • Distribution_references : Proudlove & Romero, 2001 | Romero & Paulson, 2001 | Vreven et al., 2001 .
  • Ecology : Heuts, 1951 | Heuts & Leleup, 1957 .
  • Food habits / trophic level : feeds on small crustaceans living in the caves and also on animals washed into the caves .
  • Genetics : Mullens et al., 2020 | Schedel et al., 2022 .
  • Habitat / home range : a blind fish which lives in caves .
  • Habitat_references : Proudlove & Romero, 2001 .
  • Life span : Proudlove & Romero, 2001 .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Gérard, 1936a | Olivereau & Francotte-Henry, 1957 | Olivereau & Herlant, 1954 | Thinès, 1979 .
  • Phylogeny : Schedel et al., 2022 .
  • Reproduction : eggs are expelled in a more or less haphazard fashion, the substrate on which the species spawns must have crevices and pores into which the adhesive eggs can roll and be hidden so to prevent predation by its parents or other cave inhabitants .
  • Reproduction_references : Proudlove & Romero, 2001 .
  • Size : 120 mm TL .
  • Types :
    • Caecobarbus geertsii Boulenger, 1921 b: 252, fig. 1. Type locality: "Grottes de Thysville". Syntypes MRAC n° 14.610 to 612; other specimens MRAC n° 15.336 to 351.