Austroglanis
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Austroglanis sclateri |
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Austroglanididae | ||||||||||||
Mon , 1991 | ||||||||||||
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Austroglanis | ||||||||||||
Skelton, Risch & de Vos, 1984 |
Austroglanis is the only genus of the Austroglanididae , a family of fish from the order of the catfish-like (Siluriformes). The genus includes three species that are found in South African rivers and feed on invertebrates and small fish. All species are consideredthreatenedby habitat loss . Until 1991 they were assigned to the spiny catfish (Bagridae).
features
Austroglanididae are small, 7.5 to 30 centimeters long, fish. Your nasal pair of barbels are extremely short or missing, three pairs of mandibular barbels lie on the underside of the head. The dorsal fin and the pectoral fins have strong hard rays, the adipose fin is small.
Systematics
The family includes a genus with three species :
- Austroglanis
swell
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ et al. 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
- Tim M. Berra: Freshwater Fish Distribution . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-04442-2 , pp. 163-164 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Austroglanididae on Fishbase.org (English)