Anabantidae

Neumann, Dirk, Obermaier, Henriette & Moritz, Timo, 2016, Annotated checklist for fishes of the Main Nile Basin in the Sudan and Egypt based on recent specimen records (2006 - 2015), Cybium 40 (4), pp. 287-317 : 298

Anabantidae

Lévêque et al. (1991) mention Microctenopoma congicum (Boulenger, 1887) for the Nile, referring to a single specimen questionably stored in the BMNH collection, but it was not possible to trace this specimen. This species was never confirmed for the Nile, we thus treat the record of M. congicum in Lévêque et al. (1991) for the Nile as erroneous. Ctenopoma petherici Günther, 1864 specimens collected in Kosti display an ocellus on the caudal peduncle, which is one of the key characteristics for C. muriei (Boulenger, 1906) , while all other morphologic characters of the Kosti specimens agree with C. petherici .