Clarias alluaudi Boulenger, 1906 Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Colour pattern : Seegers, 1996 | Seegers, 2008 | Teugels, 1986b .
  • Common names : Emale (Chiga: Uganda), Alluaud's catfish (English), Nsonzi (Kenyi: Uganda), Eyisombi (Konzo: Uganda), Oludhe (Luo: Kenya), Karakogere (Nyoro: Uganda), Kambale / Male (Swahili: Tanzania), Tukpe (Zande: Sudan) .
  • Current distribution known : Lakes Victoria, Kyoga, Edward, Rukwa and Tanganyika. Also in Malagarasi River and Rusizi River .
  • Food habits : mainly insectivorous, a wide variety of insect larvae and crustacean. Also small fish are taken .
  • Food habits_references : Greenwood, 1957 b | Seegers, 1996 | Teugels, 1986b | Worthington & Ricardo, 1936 b .
  • Habitat : occurs in rivers, streams, swamps and lakes. Occurs along muddy shores and in papyrus swamps in Lake Victoria; also in ponds of rice schemes, side-arms of larger waters and in mountainous streams .
  • Habitat_references : Seegers, 2008 .
  • Habits_references : Copley 1958 | Greenwood, 1957 b .
  • Migration : Seegers, 1996 .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Seegers, 1996 | Seegers, 2008 | Teugels, 1986b .
  • Size : 230 mm TL .
  • Types :
    • Clarias alluaudi Boulenger, 1906 b: 437. Type locality: "Kavirondo Bay, Entebbe and Bunjako, Lake Victoria". Lectotype BMNH n° 1906.5.30: 159; paralectotypes BMNH n° 1905.12.11: 3 (1), BMNH n° 1906.5.30: 160-161 (2), designated by Teugels (in press).
    • Clarias hilgendorfi Boulenger, 1911 e: 54. Type locality: "Lake Rukwa". Holotype BMNH n° 1911.3.27: 41.
  • Use and trade : harvested for human consumption .