Animalia > Chordata > Siluriformes > Claroteidae > Auchenoglanis > Auchenoglanis occidentalis

Auchenoglanis occidentalis (Giraffe catfish; Catfish; Bubu; Armoured catfish)

Synonyms:
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Wikipedia Abstract

The giraffe catfish, Auchenoglanis occidentalis, is an African catfish. It eats plants off the floor of lakes and streams.
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Infraspecies

Auchenoglanis occidentalis var. occidentalis
Auchenoglanis occidentalis var. tanganicanus
Auchenoglanis occidentalis var. tchadiensis

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Consumers

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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