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

Hydrocynus forskahlii (Tigerfish; Tiger fish; Elongate tigerfish)

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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