Animalia > Chordata > Siluriformes > Clariidae > Heterobranchus > Heterobranchus longifilis

Heterobranchus longifilis (Catfish; Sampa; Vundu)

Synonyms: Clarias loangwensis; Heterobranchus laticeps; Heterobranchus longifinis; Heterobranchus platycephalus
Language: Afrikaans; Arabic; Bemba; Chokwe; Danish; Dinka, Northeastern; Ewe; Finnish; Ga; Hausa; Igbo; Ijo; Kanuri; M; Mandarin Chinese; Mòoré; Nupe; Nyanja; Sena; Shilluk; Swahili; Turkana; Wolof; Yoruba; Zande

Wikipedia Abstract

The vundu (Heterobranchus longifilis) is a large species of airbreathing catfish found widely in rivers and other freshwater habitats of sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the Nile. It is also called the solomon fish, tsuni, mazunda, sampa, cur, lenda, or certa.
View Wikipedia Record: Heterobranchus longifilis

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Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Omo Strict Natural Reserve Forest Reserve 328086 Nigeria  

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♦ 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
♦ 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