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Mastacembelidae
Spiny-eel
Mastacembelus cryptacanthus
Thirty Four Point Five Centimeters Eel from African Waters
- Tropical
- Near the Equator
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Anguilliform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Anguilliform
MediumSpiny-eel is a freshwater fish from Africa. It occurs in freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 34.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Swamp Eels
- Family
- Mastacembelidae
- Genus
- Mastacembelus
- Maximum length
- 34.5 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Africa: Ouémé basin (Benin) (Ref. 57415 , 81678 ) up to the Ntem (Cameroon) (Ref. 81678 ), including the Lake Chad basin (Ref. 57415 ). Also known from Bioko Island (formerly Fernando Poo) in Equatorial Guinea (Ref. 81678 ). Reported from the middle Congo River basin (Ref. 6060 , 46252 ), but this is questionable and unconfirmed in Ref. 57415 or 81678 .
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
