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Auchenoglanididae (Flatnose catfishes)
Etymology: Parauchenoglanis: Greek, para = near + Greek, auchen = neck + Greek, glanis = a fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook; a cat fish (Ref. 45335); poikilos: Name from Greek ‘poikilos’ derived from the adjective ‘poikilos’, meaning spotted, in reference to the numerous spots composing its colour pattern.
Ambiente: milieu / zona climatica / distribuzione batimetrica / gamma di distribuzione
Ecologia
; acqua dolce benthopelagico. Tropical
Africa: Angola.
Dimensione / Peso / Età
Maturità: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.7 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 132425)
Breve descrizione
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 7; Raggi anali molli: 10; Vertebre: 36. This species is distinguished from its congeners ahli, altipinnis, balayi, buettikoferi, longiceps, monkei, pantherinus, punctatus by having a broad humeral process (vs. pointed humeral process); further differs from altipinnis, balayi, pantherinus, punctatus by the coarse skin (vs. smooth skin); differs from buettikoferi, monkei by the anterior margin of the pectoral-fin spine mostly smooth (vs. serrated from base to tip); differs from zebratus
by humeral process clearly visible through the skin and anterior margin of the pectoral-fin spine mostly smooth (vs. humeral process embedded under the skin and anterior margin of
the pectoral-fin spine mostly serrated); differs from stiassnyae by dorsolaterally positioned eyes (vs. dorsally) and spotted fins (vs. unspotted pectoral, pelvic and anal fin); differs from patersoni, dolichorhinus, luendaensis, chiumbeensis by having black background spots in between the darker spots constituting the vertical rows (vs. absent); differs further from luendaensis by the spotted head and fins (vs. unspotted); differs from ernstswartzi, megalasma by the body with vertical rows of spots (vs. vertical rows of blotches) and bluntly triangular snout (vs. round snout in ernstswartzi or partly round snout in megalasma); further differs ernstswartzi by lower body depth, 16.0%-16.2% SL (vs. deeper, 18.2%-19.9% SL); differs from dolichorhinus by deeper body, 16.0%-16.2% SL (vs. shallow, 11.6%-14.0% SL); differs from lueleensis by scattered black spots in between vertical rows (vs. one or two spots in between vertical rows) and spotted mandibular barbels (vs. unspotted) (Ref. 132425).
Cross section: oval.
Ciclo vitale e comportamento di accoppiamento
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecondità | Larve
Sithole, Y., E.J.W.M.N. Vreven, P.H.N. Bragança, T. Musschoot and A. Chakona, 2024. Nine in one: integrative taxonomic evidence of hidden species diversity in the widespread Zambezi grunter, Parauchenoglanis ngamensis (Siluriformes: Auchenoglanididae), from southern and south-central Africa. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 202:1-33. (Ref. 132425)
Stato della Lista Rossa IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Minaccia per l'uomo
Harmless
Usi umani
Pesca: scarso interesse commerciale
Strumenti
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Stime basate su modelli
Indice di diversità filogenetica (Fonte Biblio. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00525 (0.00219 - 0.01260), b=3.09 (2.88 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Livello trofico (Fonte Biblio. 69278) |
3.3 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179) |
Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilità della pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |