Bagrus degeni Boulenger, 1906

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Bagrus degeni : Boulenger, 1906 b : 438Descriptions of new fishes discovered by Mr. E. Degen in Lake Victoria. | Boulenger, 1907 l : 331, pl. 59Zoology of Egypt. The fishes of the Nile published for the Egyptian Government. 2 vol. | Boulenger, 1909 g : 307III. On a second collection of reptiles, batrachians and fishes made by Dr. E. Bayon in Uganda. | Boulenger, 1911 a : 311, fig. 247Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). | Boulenger, 1911 l : 76Collezioni zoologiche fatte nell' Uganda dal Dott. E. Bayon. | Pellegrin, 1913 e : 59Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique orientale (1911-12)- Poissons du lac Victoria. | Cunnington, 1920 : 567The fauna of the African lakes : a study in comparative limnology with special reference to Tanganyika. | Graham, 1929 : 71The Victoria Nyanza and its fisheries - A report on the fishing survey of Lake Victoria 1927-28. | Borodin, 1936 : 7On a collection of freshwater fishes from Lakes Nyasa, Tanganyika and Viktoria in Central Africa. | Copley, 1941 : 12A short account of the freshwater fishes of Kenya. | Sandon, 1950 : 43An illustrated guide to the freshwater fishes of the Sudan. | Greenwood, 1957 b : 62The fishes of Uganda. III. | Copley, 1958 : 96Common freshwater fishes of East Africa. | Greenwood, 1958 c : 73The fishes of Uganda. Kampala. | Jayaram, 1966 : 1117Contributions to the study of the fishes of the family Bagridae. A systematic account of the African genera with a new classification of the family. | Risch, 1986 : 1231. Bagridae. | Burgess, 1989 : 69An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes. A preliminary survey of the Siluriformes. | Mo, 1991 : 128Anatomy and systematics of Bagridae (Teleostei) and siluroid phylogeny. | Eccles, 1992 : 57, fig.FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Field guide to the commercial marine and brackish-water species of Tanzania. | Seegers et al., 2003 : 36 (synonym of Bagrus docmak)Annotated checklist of the freshwater fishes of Kenya (excluding the lacustrine haplochromines from Lake Victoria). | Ferraris, 2007 : 84Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types..
Porcus degeni : Jayaram, 1966 : 1117 (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..

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DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
Current distribution known : endemic to Lake Victoria .
Food habits : feeds on small fish .
Growth / growth performance : grows up to 30-40 pounds (= 13-18kg) .
Habitat / home range : lives in reeds and papyrus .
Size : 550 mm TL .
Types :
- Bagrus degeni Boulenger, 1906 b: 438. Type locality: "Entebbe", Lake Victoria. Syntypes (7) BMNH n° 1906.5.30: 172 to 177.
Use and trade : flesh is good and fish is of high economic importance .