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Petrocephalus bane (Elephantfish)

Synonyms: Mormyrus bane; Petrocephalus bane ansorgii (heterotypic); Petrocephalus bane bane; Petrocephalus bane comoensis; Petrocephalus bane tchadensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Petrocephalus bane is a species of elephantfish native to Africa where it occurs in the basins of the Nile, Bénoué and Volta rivers and the Chad Basin. It prefers relatively still waters of lakes, irrigation canals and lagoons. This species can reach a length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) SL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Otobothrium dipsacus[2]
Pseudotobothrium dipsacum[2]

External References

Citations

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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