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Chrysichthys ogooensis (Pellegrin, 1900)

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Joe Cutler (2) Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (1)

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Description: Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 6; Anal spines: 0. Diagnosis: snout acute, longer than or equal to mouth width; premaxillary toothband 16-25%, generally 20% HL; vomerine teeth missing or limited to some isolated teeth, palatine teeth absent; snout longer and head narrower than in C. nigrodigitatus of similar size. Remarks: Redescribed as Gephyroglanis ogooensis in Risch (1985a) but now back into the Chrysichthys genera.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Gephyroglanis ogooensis

Family:

Claroteidae

Distribution:

Africa: Western central Africa: Ogowe-Nyanga River basin, Gabon. Type locality: Adouma (Ogôoué).

Size:

24.0cm. SL (9½ins)

Temp:

23-26°C (73-79°F)

p.H.

6.0-7.2.

Reference:

Risch, L. and E.J. Vreven, 2007. Claroteinae. p. 607-629. In M.L.J. Stiassny, G.G. Teugels and C.D. Hopkins (eds.) The fresh and brackish water fishes of Lower Guinea, West-Central Africa. Volume I. Collection Faune et Flore tropicales 42. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, and Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium. 800 pp.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2019. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 12/2019 ).
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.

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Chrysichthys ogooensis
Ogooue-Ivindo, Gabon

Chrysichthys ogooensis
Holotype from Gabon

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