Bathyclarias
| Bathyclarias | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Clariidae |
| Genus: | Bathyclarias P. B. N. Jackson, 1959 |
| Species | |
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Bathyclarias is a genus of airbreathing catfish endemic to Lake Malawi in Africa. Several of these species are popular in the aquarium trade. Several are also components of local commercial fisheries.
Species
There are currently contains eight recognized species:[1]
- Bathyclarias atribranchus (Greenwood, 1961)
- Bathyclarias eurydon P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
- Bathyclarias filicibarbis P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
- Bathyclarias foveolatus (P. B. N. Jackson, 1955)
- Bathyclarias longibarbis (Worthington, 1933)
- Bathyclarias nyasensis (Worthington, 1933)
- Bathyclarias rotundifrons P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
- Bathyclarias worthingtoni P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Bathyclarias in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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