Parauchenoglanis

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Parauchenoglanis is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.

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Parauchenoglanis
Parauchenoglanis longiceps
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Auchenoglanididae
Genus: Parauchenoglanis
Boulenger, 1911
Type species
Pimelodus guttatus
Lönnberg, 1895
Species

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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

Parauchenoglanis 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)

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