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Auchenoglanis
Temporal range: Upper Miocene - Recent
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Auchenoglanis

Günther, 1865
Type species
Pimelodus biscutatus
É. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1809

Auchenoglanis is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa.

Auchenoglanis is a primitive member of the subfamily Auchenoglanidinae and represents a stem group.[1]

Species of this genus occur predominantly in the Nilo-Sudan region, but also in the Congo River, Lakes Mobutu and Tanganyika.[2]

Auchenoglanis species mainly feed on insect aquatic larvae and eventually on small mollusks, alevin, and swimming insects. These feeding habits should also enable them to stand a relatively wide range of ecological conditions.[1]

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this family:[3]

Fossil record

Auchenoglanis is rare in the fossil record compared to other African catfishes.[1] Auchenoglanis includes an extinct species, Auchenoglanis soye from Western Chad.[1] A few other fossils are also attributed to Auchenoglanis with no specific species described.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Otero, Olga; Likius, Andossa; Vignaud, Patrick; Brunet, Michel (2007). "A New Claroteid Catfish (Siluriformes) From the Upper Miocene of Toros-Menalla, Chad: Auchenoglanis soye, sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (2): 285–294. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[285:ANCCSF]2.0.CO;2.
  2. ^ Teugels, G. G.; Risch, L.; De Vos, L.; Audenaerde, D.F.E. Thys van den (1991). "Generic review of the African bagrid catfish genera Auchenoglanis and Parauchenoglanis with description of a new genus". Journal of Natural History. 25 (2): 499–517. doi:10.1080/00222939100770311.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Auchenoglanis". FishBase. December 2011 version.