Auchenoglanis
| Auchenoglanis Temporal range: Upper Miocene - Recent | |
|---|---|
_-_GRB.JPG) | |
| Auchenoglanis occidentalis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Claroteidae |
| Subfamily: | Auchenoglanidinae |
| Genus: | Auchenoglanis Günther, 1865 |
| Type species | |
| Pimelodus biscutatus É. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1809 | |
Auchenoglanis is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.
Auchenoglanis is a primitive member of the subfamily Auchenoglanidinae and represents a stem group.[1]
Species of this genus occur predominantly in the Nilo-Sudan region and Western Africa, but also in the Congo River, Lakes Mobutu and Tanganyika.[2]
Auchenoglanis species mainly feed on insect aquatic larvae and eventually on small mollusks, alevin, and swimming insects. These feeding habits should also enable them to stand a relatively wide range of ecological conditions.[1]
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this family:[3]
- Auchenoglanis biscutatus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809)
- Auchenoglanis occidentalis (Valenciennes, 1840) (Bubu)
- Auchenoglanis senegali Retzer, 2010
Fossil record
Auchenoglanis is rare in the fossil record compared to other African catfishes.[1] Auchenoglanis includes an extinct species, Auchenoglanis soye from Western Chad.[1] A few other fossils are also attributed to Auchenoglanis with no specific species described.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Otero, Olga; Likius, Andossa; Vignaud, Patrick; Brunet, Michel (2007). "A New Claroteid Catfish (Siluriformes) From the Upper Miocene of Toros-Menalla, Chad: Auchenoglanis soye, sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (2): 285–294. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[285:ANCCSF]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Teugels, G. G.; Risch, L.; De Vos, L.; Audenaerde, D.F.E. Thys van den (1991). "Generic review of the African bagrid catfish genera Auchenoglanis and Parauchenoglanis with description of a new genus". Journal of Natural History 25 (2): 499–517. doi:10.1080/00222939100770311.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Auchenoglanis in FishBase. December 2011 version.