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Doumea
''Doumea'' is a genus of loach catfishes native to Africa. Species of ''Doumea'' have a rather large and tapered body, a pointed head, and a thin caudal peduncle. Thin bilateral osseous peaks are sometimes present on the back and the belly, and are the precursors series of osseous plates observed in the other kinds of Doumeinae. By the shape of the body, these fish are adapted to rapids. Species There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus: * ''Doumea angolensis'' Boulenger, 1906 * ''Doumea chappuisi'' Pellegrin, 1933 * ''Doumea gracila'' P. H. Skelton, 2007 * ''Doumea reidi'' Ferraris, P. H. Skelton & Vari, 2010 * ''Doumea sanaga'' P. H. Skelton, 2007 * '' Doumea skeltoni'' Ferraris & Vari, 2014 Ferraris, Jr., C.J. & Vari, R.P. (2014): New Species of ''Doumea'' (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae) from Coastal River Basins of the Republic of the Congo. ''Copeia, 2013 (4) 014 577-581''. * ''Doumea stilicauda'' Ferraris, P. H. Skelton & Vari, 2010 * ''Doumea thysi'' P. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Gracila
''Doumea gracila'' is a species of catfish in the genus ''Doumea''. It lives from Nyong The Nyong (formerly german: Yong) is a river in Cameroon. The river flows approximately to empty into the Gulf of Guinea. Course The Nyong originates east of the town of Abong-Mbang, where the northern rain forest feeds it. The river's leng ... to the Ntem rivers in southern Cameroon. References Amphiliidae Freshwater fish of Africa Fish described in 2007 {{Catfish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Sanaga
''Doumea sanaga'' is a species of catfish in the genus ''Doumea ''Doumea'' is a genus of loach catfishes native to Africa. Species of ''Doumea'' have a rather large and tapered body, a pointed head, and a thin caudal peduncle. Thin bilateral osseous peaks are sometimes present on the back and the belly, and ...''. It lives in the upper Sanaga River in Cameroon, which it is also named after. Its length reaches 8 cm. References Amphiliidae Freshwater fish of Africa Fish described in 2007 {{Catfish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Reidi
''Doumea reidi'' is a species of catfish in the genus ''Doumea''. It lives in the Mbam River The Mbam River is the largest tributary of the Sanaga River in Cameroon. It has a total length of and has a total drainage basin of . It flows from the Adamawa Plateau and receives the Kim Kim or KIM may refer to: Names * Kim (given name) * K ... in Nigeria. Its length reaches 9.3 cm. References Amphiliidae Freshwater fish of Africa Fish described in 2010 {{Catfish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Angolensis
''Doumea angolensis'' is a species of loach catfish endemic to Angola where it is found in the Benguela Benguela (; Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province. Benguela is one of Angola's most populous cities with a population of 555,124 in the city and 561,775 in the municipality, at the 2014 census. History Por ... interior and the Kwanza River system. It reaches lengths of 7 cm. References * Amphiliidae Endemic fauna of Angola Freshwater fish of Angola Catfish of Africa Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Fish described in 1906 {{Siluriformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Thysi
''Doumea thysi'' is a species of loach catfish found in Nigeria where it is found in the Cross River and Cameroon where it is found in that country's section of the Cross River and Ndian Department. It reaches a length of 6.5 cm. the fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Dirk Thys van den Audenaerde Dirk Frans Elisabeth Thys van den Audenaerde (born March 14, 1934, in Mechelen) is a Belgian ichthyologist. He is an honorary director of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and professor emeritus at the KU Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke ... (b. 1934) who is the Director at the Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (Tervuren, Belgium), where the type specimen is housed. References * Amphiliidae Fish of Africa Taxa named by Paul Harvey Skelton Fish described in 1989 {{Siluriformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Chappuisi
''Doumea chappuisi'' is a species of loach catfish found in the coastal rivers of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ... and Guinea-Bissau. It reaches a length of 11.4 cm. The fish is named in honor of French-born Swiss zoologist and biospeleologist Pierre-Alfred Chappuis (1891-1960), who collected the type specimen. References * Amphiliidae Freshwater fish of West Africa Taxa named by Jacques Pellegrin Fish described in 1933 {{Siluriformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Stilicauda
''Doumea stilicauda'' is a species of catfish in the genus ''Doumea ''Doumea'' is a genus of loach catfishes native to Africa. Species of ''Doumea'' have a rather large and tapered body, a pointed head, and a thin caudal peduncle. Thin bilateral osseous peaks are sometimes present on the back and the belly, and ...''. It lives in the So'o River, a tributary of the Nyong River, in Cameroon. Its length reaches 17.5 cm. References Amphiliidae Freshwater fish of Africa Fish described in 2010 {{Catfish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Skeltoni
''Doumea skeltoni'' is a species of catfish in the genus ''Doumea''. It lives in the Loémé and Kouilou-Niari rivers in the Republic of the Congo. Its length reaches 4.5 cm. It is named after South African ichthyologist Paul H. Skelton Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris .... References Amphiliidae Freshwater fish of Africa Fish described in 2014 {{Catfish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doumea Typica
''Doumea typica'' is a species of loach catfish found in the Dja River and coastal rivers in Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and Gabon as well as possibly in the Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in .... It reaches a length of 13.2 cm. References * Amphiliidae Freshwater fish of Central Africa Taxa named by Henri Émile Sauvage Fish described in 1879 {{Siluriformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loach Catfish
The loach catfishes are a family, Amphiliidae, of catfishes (order Siluriformes). They are widespread in tropical Africa, but are most common in streams at high elevations; most species are able to cling to rocks in fast-flowing streams. The 13 genera contain 68 species. The family Amphiliidae has three subfamilies, Amphiliinae, Leptoglanidinae (previously misspelled Leptoglaninae), and Doumeinae. The monophyly of Amphiliidae has been questioned; one author restricts the family to the members of the subfamily Amphiliinae and transferred the other genera to a family Doumeidae. The Amphiliidae have been previously thought to be a basal taxon in the superfamily Loricarioidea, but some authors place their relationships elsewhere. Description Amphiliids are generally small catfishes with tapering, elongated bodies. The pectoral and ventral fin Pelvic fins or ventral fins are paired fins located on the ventral surface of fish. The paired pelvic fins are homologous Homology may r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freshwater Fish Genera
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include non- salty mineral-rich waters such as chalybeate springs. Fresh water may encompass frozen and meltwater in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, snowfields and icebergs, natural precipitations such as rainfall, snowfall, hail/ sleet and graupel, and surface runoffs that form inland bodies of water such as wetlands, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, as well as groundwater contained in aquifers, subterranean rivers and lakes. Fresh water is the water resource that is of the most and immediate use to humans. Water is critical to the survival of all living organisms. Many organisms can thrive on salt water, but the great majority of higher plants and most insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds need fresh water to survive. Fresh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
