Acanthocleithron

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Acanthocleithron
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Mochokidae
Genus: Acanthocleithron
Nichols & Griscom, 1917
Species:
A. chapini
Binomial name
Acanthocleithron chapini
Nichols & Griscom, 1917

Acanthocleithron chapini is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus Acanthocleithron of the family Mochokidae. [2] This species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it occurs in the Ituri River and Congo River from Kisangani to Stanley Pool. [2] This oviparous fish reaches a length of 5.5 centimetres (2.2 in) SL. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Moelants, T. (2010). "Acanthocleithron chapini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T181877A7755028. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T181877A7755028.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1418: 1–628. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Acanthocleithron chapini". FishBase . December 2011 version.


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