''Parauchenoglanis'' is a
genus
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of
claroteid catfishes native to
Africa
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.
The range of the genus ''Parauchenoglanis'' stretches from the coastal lowlands of
Benin
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and
Nigeria
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to the
Okavango and upper
Zambezi River
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systems in
Botswana
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and
Zambia
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.
Species
''Parauchenoglanis'' currently contains the following nine recognized
species
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:
* ''
Parauchenoglanis ahli''
(Holly
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, 1930)
* ''
Parauchenoglanis altipinnis''
( Boulenger, 1911)
* ''
Parauchenoglanis balayi''
(Sauvage Sauvage, French for "savage" may refer to:
; as a surname:
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* Cyrille Sauvage (born 1973), a French racing driver
* Frédéric Sauvage (1786–1857), a French boat builder who carried ...
, 1879)
* ''
Parauchenoglanis buettikoferi''
(Popta
Canna Maria Louise Popta (31 May 1860 – 13 June 1929)L.B. Holthuis, Biography i1820-1958, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie page 82 (in Dutch). was a Dutch biologist.
Born in Breda, Popta was one of the first women to enrol as a student at ...
, 1913)
* ''
Parauchenoglanis longiceps''
( Boulenger, 1913)
* ''
Parauchenoglanis monkei''
( Keilhack, 1910) (Dotted catfish)
* ''
Parauchenoglanis ngamensis''
( Boulenger, 1911) (Zambezi grunter)
* ''
Parauchenoglanis pantherinus''
( Pellegrin, 1929)
* ''
Parauchenoglanis punctatus''
( Boulenger, 1902)
References
Claroteidae
Fish of Africa
Catfish genera
Freshwater fish genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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