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Clarias gariepinus (Sharptoothed catfish; Sharptooth catfish; North African catfish; Mudfish; Common catfish; Catfish; Barbel; African catfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Clarias gariepinus or African sharptooth catfish is a species of catfish of the family Clariidae, the airbreathing catfishes.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic, Benthic, Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools, Brackish Water
Diet [1]  Omnivore

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Okavango Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Gymnarchus niloticus (Aba)1
Serranochromis macrocephalus (Purpleface largemouth)1

Predators

Clarias gariepinus (Sharptoothed catfish)[2]
Gymnarchus niloticus (Aba)[5]
Hydrocynus vittatus (Tigerfish)[2]
Lates niloticus (Victoria perch)[2]

Consumers

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.
♦ 3Electrosensory prey detection in the African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Clariidae), of a weakly electric mormyrid fish, the bulldog (Marcusenius macrolepidotus), Susanne Hanika, Bernd Kramer, Behav Ecol Sociobiol (2000) 48:218–228
♦ 4"Reproductive biology and feeding habits of the catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) (Pisces: Clariidae) in lake Awassa, Ethiopia", Elias Dadebo, Ethiopian Journal of Science Vol. 23, No. 2 (December 2000), pp. 231-246
♦ 5Sagua, V.O. (1986) Preliminary observations on the feeding, habits and reproduction biology of Gymnarchus niloticus from Lake Chad. In: 3rd Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON) , 22-25 February, 1983 , Maiduguri, Nigeria.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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