Animalia > Chordata > Osteoglossiformes > Mormyridae > Marcusenius > Marcusenius macrolepidotus

Marcusenius macrolepidotus (Bulldog; Tana-bulldog; Elephant nose; Bulldog-fish)

Synonyms:
Language: Afrikaans; Arabic; Bemba; Czech; Danish; Finnish; German; Mandarin Chinese; Nyanja; Other; Sena; Swahili; Venda; Zande

Infraspecies

Gnathonemus macrolepidotus f. macrolepidotus

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

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

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kora National Park II 409762 Kenya
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve   Mpumalanga, South Africa  
Mlawula Nature Reserve IV 46444 Swaziland  
Moremi Game Reserve IV 1214686 Botswana  

Prey / Diet

Povilla adusta (African burrowing mayfly)[2]

Predators

Clarias gariepinus (Sharptoothed catfish)[3]
Serranochromis macrocephalus (Purpleface largemouth)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Clinostomum vanderhorsti[5]
Mormyrogyrodactylus gemini[5]

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
♦ 4Comparative ecology of Serranochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) in the Upper Zambezi River floodplain, K. O. WINEMILLER, Journal of Fish Biology (1991) 39, 617-639
♦ 5Gibson, 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
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