Polypterus weeksii
Species of fish
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Polypterus weeksii, the mottled bichir, is a fish in the family Polypteridae found in the central basin of the Congo River.[2] It grows to about 54 cm in head-to-tail length.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Polypteriformes |
| Family: | Polypteridae |
| Genus: | Polypterus |
| Species: | P. weeksii |
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| Polypterus weeksii Boulenger, 1898 | |
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Named in honor of John Henry Weeks (1861-1924), Baptist missionary, ethnographer, explorer and diarist, who collected type at his mission station in Monsembe, upper Congo River, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo).[4]
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