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Parauchenoglanis ngamensis

(Zambezi Grunter)

Overview

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Family : Bagrid catfishes ; Favors rocky habitats or marginal vegetation in slow-flowing rivers and lagoons , often taking shelter under trees . Diet consists of small fishes and invertebrates like snails, shrimps and insects. Eggs are large and relatively few, suggesting parental care, but no details are know. 'Grunts' when taken out of the water (Ref. 7248).

Common Names

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Common Names in Afrikaans:

Zambesi-Knorbaber

Common Names in Chokwe:

Lumbungo, Lwasa, Tshinganda

Common Names in English:

Zambezi Grunter

Common Names in Finnish:

Pilkkukissamonni

Common Names in German:

Großmaul-Stachelwels, Gromaul-Stachelwels

Common Names in Lwena:

Tshikanda, Tshingondola

Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:

乍得副項鱨, 乍得項鱨, 乍得項鱨, 乍得项鲿, 乍得副項鱨, 乍得副项鲿

Common Names in Other:

Bibonga Ya Kajama, Sibutu

Description

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Family Bagridae

Distribution: Africa and Asia (to Japan and Borneo). A spine before dorsal fin. Dorsal soft rays usually 6 or 7 (rarely 8-20). Adipose fin with high interspecific variability in size. Serrated pectoral spine. Scaleless . Barbels usually four pairs; well-developed. Some valued as food fish ; others as aquarium fish. Maximum length of about 2 m attained in Chrysichthys grandis of Lake Tanganyika (Ref. 7463). Family Claroteidae (Berra 2001) was carved out of the traditional Bagridae to reflect a monophyletic group of African catfishes. Two subfamilies are recognized, Claroteinae and Auchenoglanidinae, which together contain more than 90 species in 13 genera. Distribution includes the Nile River basin and most of west and central Africa south to the Tropic of Capricorn, including the east African lakes. Includes Auchenoglanis, Chrysichthys, Leptoglanis, and Parauchenoglanis. Another family taken from Bagridae is Austroglanididae to accommodate the southern African genus Austroglanis and its three species (Ref. 36739).The family Bagridae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Siluriformes. It contains 30 genera and 210 species. It may be found in Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Primary freshwater. Some members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is anguilliform . Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be sluggish. Members of this family have been dated back to the lower Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary period. This family may be found from 55° n to 12° s and 18° w to 140° e. Etymology of this family name : Related to the Mozarabic voice "Bagre" that is taken from Greek, pagros = seabream

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 486 meters (0 to 1,594 feet).Mean = -129.150 meters (-423.720 feet), Standard Deviation = 992.070 based on 34 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Biome: Fresh water . Demersal .

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Auchenoglanis ngamensis Boulenger, 1911

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 11-Apr-2003

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Parauchenoglanis

There are approximately 15 species in this genus:

P. loennbergi · P. ahli · P. altipinnis · P. balayi · P. buettikoferi · P. fasciatus · P. loennbergi (African Shovelnose Catfish) · P. iturii · P. loennbergi (African Shovelnose Catfish) · P. longiceps · P. monkei · P. ngamensis (Zambezi Grunter) · P. pantherinus · P. punctatus · P. ubangensis

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

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Footnotes

Last Revised: 2008-08-13