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Schilbeidae
Glass schilbid
Parailia pellucida
Schilbeid Fish beneath the Niger Basin
- Tropical
- Coastal
- Lower river
- Upper river
- Restricted distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Elongated
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Restricted distribution
Freshwater fish
Elongated
SmallGlass schilbid is a freshwater fish of Africa. The species occupies freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 12 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Catfishes
- Family
- Schilbeidae
- Genus
- Parailia
- Maximum length
- 12 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Africa: Upper Nile to West Africa (Ref. 33556 ). In west Africa in the Chad basin, Niger, Senegal, Boubo, Bandama, Agnébi, Volta, Mono, Ouémé, Ogun, coastal lagoons of Nigeria and Cross (Ref. 57127 ). In lower Guinea limited to the Cross and Wouri Rivers (Ref. 81643 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
