Parauchenoglanis is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.
| Parauchenoglanis | |
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| Parauchenoglanis longiceps | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Auchenoglanididae |
| Genus: | Parauchenoglanis Boulenger, 1911 |
| Type species | |
| Pimelodus guttatus Lönnberg, 1895 | |
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The range of the genus Parauchenoglanis stretches from the coastal lowlands of Benin and Nigeria to the Okavango and upper Zambezi River systems in Botswana and Zambia.[1]
Species
editParauchenoglanis currently contains the following 19 recognized species:[2]
- Parauchenoglanis ahli (Holly, 1930)
- Parauchenoglanis altipinnis (Boulenger, 1911)
- Parauchenoglanis balayi (Sauvage, 1879)
- Parauchenoglanis buettikoferi (Popta, 1913)
- Parauchenoglanis chiumbeensis Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024[3][4]
- Parauchenoglanis dolichorhinus Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024[3][4]
- Parauchenoglanis ernstswartzi Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024[3][4]
- Parauchenoglanis longiceps (Boulenger, 1913)
- Parauchenoglanis lueleensis Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024[3][4]
- Parauchenoglanis luendaensis Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024[3][4]
- Parauchenoglanis megalasma Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024[3][4]
- Parauchenoglanis monkei (Keilhack, 1910) (Dotted catfish)
- Parauchenoglanis ngamensis (Boulenger, 1911) (Zambezi grunter)
- Parauchenoglanis pantherinus (Pellegrin, 1929)
- Parauchenoglanis patersoni Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024[3][4]
- Parauchenoglanis poikilos Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024[3][4]
- Parauchenoglanis punctatus (Boulenger, 1902)
- Parauchenoglanis stiassnyae (Modimo, Bernt, Monsembula Iyaba, Mbimbi & Liyandja, 2024)
- Parauchenoglanis zebratus (Sithole, Musschoot, Huyghe, Chakona & Vreven, 2023)
References
edit- ↑ Geerinckx, T.; Adriaens, D.; Teugels, G. G.; Verraes, W. (2004). "A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Parauchenoglanis (Siluriformes: Claroteidae)". Journal of Natural History. 38 (6): 775–803. Bibcode:2004JNatH..38..775G. doi:10.1080/0022293021000039160. S2CID 84727032.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Parauchenoglanis". FishBase. December 2011 version.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024. Nine in One: Integrative Taxonomic Evidence of Hidden Species Diversity in the widespread Zambezi Grunter, Parauchenoglanis ngamensis (Siluriformes: Auchenoglanididae), from southern and south-central Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 202(3); zlae121. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae121 saiab.AC.za
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Unveiling New Species: How Eight New Catfish Species Were Named". saiab.ac.za. 2024-11-14.
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