Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Alestidae > Hydrocynus > Hydrocynus forskahlii

Hydrocynus forskahlii (Tigerfish; Tiger fish; Elongate tigerfish)

Synonyms:
Language: Adangme; Bambara; El Molo; Ewe; Finnish; Fulfulde, Pulaar; Ga; Hausa; Igbo; Ijo; Jula; Kanuri; Kim; Krio; M; Mòoré; Nupe; Sonink; Turkana; Wolof; Yoruba

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Omo Strict Natural Reserve Forest Reserve 328086 Nigeria  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Hydrocynus forskahlii (Tigerfish)[3]
Sphyraena afra (Guinean barracuda)[3]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3Comparative analysis of trophic structure and interactions of two tropical lagoons, M.C. Villanueva, P. Lalèyè, J.-J. Albaret, R. Laë, L. Tito de Morais and J. Moreau, Ecological Modelling, Vol. 197, Issues 3-4 , 25 August 2006, P. 461-477
♦ 4ANALYSES OF THE STOMACH CONTENTS OF THE PISCIVOROUS FISHES OF THE UPPER OGUN RIVER IN NIGERIA, A. A. ADEBISI, Hydrobiologia 79, 167-177 (1981).
♦ 5Comparative ecology of the African pike, Hepsetus odoe, and tigerfish, Hydrocynus forskahlii, in the Zambezi River floodplain, KIRK O. WINEMILLER AND LESLIE C. KELSO-WINEMILLER, Journal of Fish Biology (1994) 45, 211-225
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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