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Habitat: Found in lakes and rivers. Description: Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 64-92; Anal soft rays: 64 - 79; Vertebrae: 58 - 62. Pectoral fin spine serrated on both inner and outer sides. Head pointed in dorsal outline; snout short and slightly rounded; eyes more dorsally located. Frontal fontanelle short and squat (`sole-shaped') or intermediate between `sole-shaped' and `knife-shaped'; occipital fontanelle long and oval-shaped. The `dermosphenotic' and supraorbital joined. Tooth plates small, gill rakers long, slender and distantly set. Suprabranchial organ well developed. Openings of secondary canals regularly arranged along flanks. Diet: Feeds mainly on insects, consisting of larval and adult aquatic Coleoptera, terrestrial insects, chironomid larvae and larvae of Povilla, culicines and hydroptilids. Also feeds on ostracods, gastropods, plants, copepods and Hydracarina.

Werner's catfish

Clarioides werneri

Clariidae

Africa: Lakes Victoria, Kioga, Edward, and Tanganyika; upper Nile River. Type locality: Gondokoro, and Lake Victoria (at Bunjako, Buganga, and Munyonyo), Uganda, restricted to Buganga, by lectotype designation.

23.0cm. (9ins)

23-28°C (73-83°F)

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van Oijen, M.J.P., 1995. Appendix I. Key to Lake Victoria fishes other than haplochromine cichlids. p. 209-300. In F. Witte and W.L.T. van Densen (eds.) Fish stocks and fisheries of Lake Victoria. A handbook for field observations. Samara Publishing Limited, Dyfed, Great Britain.