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Heterotis niloticus (Stoneside; No name; Heterotis; Bony tongue; African bonytongue; African arowana)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The African arowana, Heterotis niloticus, is a species of bonytongue. Despite being called an "arowana", the African arowana is more closely related to arapaimas, the only other members in the Arapaimidae family, than the South American, Asian and Australian arowanas in the Osteoglossidae family (Arapaimidae is sometimes included in Osteoglossidae). Compared to these, the African arowana has a more terminal mouth and is the only one that feeds extensively on plankton.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Foret Classee de la Mare Aux Hippopotames Bird Reserve IV 37906 Burkina Faso  
Omo Strict Natural Reserve Forest Reserve 328086 Nigeria  
Takamanda Forest Reserve National Park II 167041 Cameroon  

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[1]

Predators

Haliaeetus vociferoides (Madagascar Fish Eagle)[2]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

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.
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 3Gibson, 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