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Polypterus endlicherii (Bichir)

Synonyms: Polypterus endlicheri; Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri; Polypterus endlicherii endlicherii

Wikipedia Abstract

Polypterus endlicheri Heckel, 1847 is one of the largest species of the Polypterus genus of freshwater fish. It has two subspecies: \n* Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri Heckel, 1847 (saddled bichir) \n* Polypterus endlicheri congicus Boulenger, 1898 (Congo bichir)
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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  

Prey / Diet

Coptodon zillii (Zilli's tilapia)[2]
Schilbe mystus (Silver catfish)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Callodistomum diaphanum[4]
Polyonchobothrium polypteri[4]
Procamallanus spiralis[4]
Proteocephalus pentastoma <Unverified Name>[4]
Proteocephalus sulcatus[4]

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.
♦ 3Raji, 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
♦ 4Gibson, 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