FB-62279 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62279 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Siluriformes Trichomycteridae Ituglanis Ituglanis nebulosus de Pinna & Keith, 2003 2005-10-18 2021-11-11 Norris, S.M.0 A revision of the African electric catfishes, family Malapteruridae (Teleostei, Siluriformes), with erection of a new genus and descriptions of fourteen new species, and an annotated bibliography. Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Centr., Sci. Zool., 289:1-155. (Ref. 44050) Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.)0 Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of May 2005. Database dump. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in May 2005. (Ref. 54621) Norris, S.M.0 Malapteruridae. p. 174-194 In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douce et saumâtres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Tome 2. Coll. Faune et Flore tropicales 40. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Museum National d'Histoire Naturalle, Paris, France and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France. 815 p. (Ref. 57130) Beolens, B., M. Grayson and M. Watkins0 Eponym dictionary of Fishes. Dunbeath, Caithness (Scotland, UK): Whittles Publishing Limited, 1300 p. (Ref. 128868) FB-DiagnosticDescr-62286 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Tobias Musschoot 2006-07-13 16:27:53 2015-02-27 22:29:35 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62286 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses Diagnosis: body elongate and cylindrical; tooth patches narrow; vertically based pectoral fin positioned at body mid-depth; caudal bar frequently extends a narrow band along the body mid-depth, dividing the pale interspace and joining the saddle and caudal bar; medial portion of pelvic fin dark with a well-defined pale rim; caudal saddle and bar pattern more prominent in juveniles and young, the darkened pelvic fin more apparent in larger specimens (Ref. 44050).Description: body elongate and fusiform; head slightly depressed; eyes large and lateral; jaws equal; 16-18 abdominal vertebrae; 21-23 caudal vertebrae; 19 caudal-fin rays (arrangement usually ii-7-8-ii, but also ii-6-8-ii and iii-7-8-ii) (Ref. 44050, 57130).Coloration: body and head strongly bicolored; dorsum and flank dark grey, with venter sometimes dusky, especially on the underside of the head, but always much lighter than dorsum; dorsum and flank marked by scattered spots, few larger than 2-3 times an eye diameter, with a few scattered small spots on the venter; caudal saddle and bar pattern well developed and dark; saddle covers most of flank, but stops short of anal-fin base; pale interspace is bright in young; caudal bar wedge-shaped, usually with an anterior projection along the body mid-depth that often extends anteriad and merges with the saddle, completely dividing the pale interspace; definition of saddle and bar decreases with size, only faintly visible at 140mm SL; anal fin darkly pigmented throughout, except for pale distal rim; caudal fin in adults solidly pigmented throughout, except for a pale distal margin; pale basal crescent in caudal fin present in juveniles and young; pectoral fin dusky in adults, largely clear in juveniles; pelvic fin bears a sharply defined pigmented medial section, which darkens with age (Ref. 44050). Norris, S.M. 2002 A revision of the African electric catfishes, family Malapteruridae (Teleostei, Siluriformes), with erection of a new genus and descriptions of fourteen new species, and an annotated bibliography. Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Centr., Sci. Zool., 289:1-155. (Ref. 44050) FB-Morphology-62286 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Tobias Musschoot 2006-07-13 16:27:53 2015-02-27 22:29:35 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62286 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): - 0; Anal spines: 0; Analsoft rays: 8 - 10; Vertebrae: 38 - 40 Norris, S.M. 2002 A revision of the African electric catfishes, family Malapteruridae (Teleostei, Siluriformes), with erection of a new genus and descriptions of fourteen new species, and an annotated bibliography. Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Centr., Sci. Zool., 289:1-155. (Ref. 44050) FB-Distribution-62286 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-10-21 00:00:00 2015-02-27 22:32:46 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62286 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Africa: endemic to the Kogon River, Guinea (Ref. 44050, 57130). Norris, S.M. 2002 A revision of the African electric catfishes, family Malapteruridae (Teleostei, Siluriformes), with erection of a new genus and descriptions of fourteen new species, and an annotated bibliography. Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Centr., Sci. Zool., 289:1-155. (Ref. 44050) FB-Size-62286 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-10-21 00:00:00 2024-03-25 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62286 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats 21.2 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 57130)) Norris, S.M. 2003 Malapteruridae. p. 174-194 In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douce et saumâtres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Tome 2. Coll. Faune et Flore tropicales 40. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Museum National d'Histoire Naturalle, Paris, France and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France. 815 p. (Ref. 57130) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-62286 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 2005-10-21 00:00:00 2024-03-25 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=62286 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription demersal; freshwater