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Bathyclarias worthingtoni

Synonyms: Bathyclarias gigas; Dinotopterus gigas; Dinotopterus worthingtoni
Language: Mandarin Chinese; Nyanja; Swahili; Tumbuka

Wikipedia Abstract

Bathyclarias worthingtoni is a species of airbreathing catfish endemic to Lake Malawi, in the countries of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. This species grows to a length of 80 cm SL (31.5 inches). This species is commercially caught for human consumption and can also be found in the aquarium trade.
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Prey / Diet

Neoperla spio[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0