''Chelaethiops congicus'' is an African species of freshwater fish in the family
Danionidae
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. It is found in the
Congo River
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basin and in the
Lake Tanganyika
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basin.
References
congicus
Fish described in 1917
Taxa named by John Treadwell Nichols
Taxa named by Ludlow Griscom
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