Clariidae

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 : 297

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26028/cybium/2016-404-004
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8151BE16-FFBB-FFD1-6A92-27F9FEE5D18F
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Clariidae
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Clariidae View in CoL

Although formerly widely distributed, both species, Heterobranchus bidorsalis Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809

and Heterobranchus longifilis Valenciennes, 1840 , seem to become increasingly restricted within the Nile below Khartoum today; our last records of Heterobranchus spp. date back to 1986.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Order	Siluriformes
Family	Clariidae

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