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Schilbe mystus (Silver catfish; Silver barbel; Mystus catfish; Lubangu; Butterfish; Butter fish; Butter catfish; Butter barbel; African glass catfish; African butter catfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The African butter catfish (Schilbe mystus) is a species of fish in the Schilbeidae family. It is native to many major river systems in Africa. Other common names for the fish include butter fish, butter barbel, African glass catfish, lubangu, mystus catfish, silver barbel, and silver catfish. It was originally described as Silurus mystus by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

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  
Kora National Park II 409762 Kenya
Omo Strict Natural Reserve Forest Reserve 328086 Nigeria  
Parc National du Niokolo-Koba National Park II 2046878 Senegal  

Prey / Diet

Enteromius chlorotaenia[2]
Pellonula leonensis (Guinean sprat)[3]
Povilla adusta (African burrowing mayfly)[3]
Sierrathrissa leonensis (West African pygmy herring)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Brycinus nurse (Silversides)1
Hepsetus odoe (Pike characid)1
Hydrocynus forskahlii (Tigerfish)1
Oreochromis niloticus (Nile tilapia)1
Synodontis membranaceus (Catfish)1

Predators

Consumers

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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
♦ 2ANALYSES OF THE STOMACH CONTENTS OF THE PISCIVOROUS FISHES OF THE UPPER OGUN RIVER IN NIGERIA, A. A. ADEBISI, Hydrobiologia 79, 167-177 (1981).
♦ 3"The food and feeding habits of Eutropius niloticus (Ruppell), family Schilbeidae (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) in Lake Kainji, Nigeria", Akinola A. Olatunde, Hydrobiologia February 1978, Volume 57, Issue 3, pp 197-207
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Raji, Aminu and Saidu, Armed K. and Maryam, Ahmed T. (2004) Preliminary studies on food and feeding habits of Polypterus endlicheri and Polypterus senegalus in Lake Chad. In: 18th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON) , 8-12 December, 2003 , Owerri, Nigeria
♦ 7Gibson, 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