''Parauchenoglanis'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

claroteid catfish The Claroteidae are a family of catfish (order Siluriformes) found in Africa. This family was separated from Bagridae. However, the monophyly of the family is sometimes contested. The 9 genera contain 65 known species of claroteids. The family ...

es native to

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

. The range of the genus ''Parauchenoglanis'' stretches from the coastal lowlands of

Benin Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It was formerly known as Dahomey. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its po ...

and

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

to the Okavango and upper

Zambezi River The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers , slightly less than half of t ...

systems in

Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

and

Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...

Species

''Parauchenoglanis'' currently contains the following 19 recognized

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: * '' Parauchenoglanis ahli'' (

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, 1930) * '' Parauchenoglanis altipinnis'' (

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, 1911) * ''

Parauchenoglanis balayi ''Parauchenoglanis'' is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa. The range of the genus ''Parauchenoglanis'' stretches from the coastal lowlands of Benin and Nigeria to the Okavango and upper Zambezi River systems in Botswana and Zambia ...

'' ( Sauvage, 1879) * '' Parauchenoglanis buettikoferi'' (

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, 1913) * '' Parauchenoglanis chiumbeensis'' Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024. Nine in One: Integrative Taxonomic Evidence of Hidden Species Diversity in the widespread Zambezi Grunter, Parauchenoglanis ngamensis (Siluriformes: Auchenoglanididae), from southern and south-central Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 202(3); zlae121. saiab.AC.za * '' Parauchenoglanis dolichorhinus'' Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024 * '' Parauchenoglanis ernstswartzi'' Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024 * ''

Parauchenoglanis longiceps ''Parauchenoglanis longiceps'' is a species of claroteid catfish native to Africa.Geerinckx, T., D. Adriaens, G.G. Teugels and W. Verraes, 2004. A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Parauchenoglanis (Siluriformes: Claroteidae). J. ...

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, 1913) * '' Parauchenoglanis lueleensis'' Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024 * '' Parauchenoglanis luendaensis'' Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024 * '' Parauchenoglanis megalasma'' Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024 * '' Parauchenoglanis monkei'' ( Keilhack, 1910) (Dotted catfish) * '' Parauchenoglanis ngamensis'' (

, 1911) (Zambezi grunter) * '' Parauchenoglanis pantherinus'' ( Pellegrin, 1929) * '' Parauchenoglanis patersoni'' Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024 * '' Parauchenoglanis poikilos'' Yonela Sithole, Emmanuel J W M N Vreven, Pedro H N Bragança, Tobias Musschoot, Albert Chakona. 2024 * '' Parauchenoglanis punctatus'' (

, 1902) * '' Parauchenoglanis stiassnyae'' (Modimo, Bernt, Monsembula Iyaba, Mbimbi & Liyandja, 2024) * '' Parauchenoglanis zebratus'' (Sithole, Musschoot, Huyghe, Chakona & Vreven, 2023)

References

Claroteidae Fish of Africa Catfish genera Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger {{Catfish-stub