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Pimelodus pictus, also known as the pictus cat or pictus catfish, is a small (11.0 centimetres (4.3 in) TL) member of the catfish family Pimelodidae, native to the Amazon and Orinoco river basins and commonly kept as a pet in freshwater aquariums. Pictus catfish are sometimes mislabeled as Angelicus cats in the aquarium trade, but the latter ...
Synodontis multipunctatus, also known as the cuckoo catfish, cuckoo squeaker, or multipunk, is a small catfish from Lake Tanganyika, one of the lakes in the Great Rift Valley system in Africa. It is a brood parasite upon mouthbrooding cichlids. This species grows to a length of 27.5 centimetres (10.8 in) TL. This species is a minor component of ...
Synodontis is the most widely distributed mochokidae genus, occurring throughout most of the freshwaters of sub- Saharan Africa and the Nile River system. [3] They can live in freshwaters which can be creeks, ponds, streams, lakes, and rivers. [2] Their distribution is similar to that of cichlid fishes, however, unlike cichlids the majority of ...
Convict cichlid. The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata) is a fish species from the family Cichlidae, native to Central America, [3] also known as the zebra cichlid. [4] Convict cichlids are popular aquarium fish [3] and have also been the subject of numerous studies on fish behaviour. [5]
Synodontis petricola, known as the cuckoo catfish, [2] or the pygmy leopard catfish, [3] is a species of upside-down catfish endemic to Burundi, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania where it is only known from Lake Tanganyika. [2][4] It was first described by Belgian ichthyologist Hubert Matthes in 1959. [4]
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The most famous and diverse group, the African cichlids, can be further split either into Eastern and Western varieties, or into groups depending on which lake the species is from: Lake Malawi, Lake Victoria, or Lake Tanganyika. [76] [77] Of these subgroups, the Madagascar and Indian cichlids are the most basal and least diverse. [citation needed]
The family Pimelodidae has undergone much revision. Currently, it contains about 30 genera and about 90 recognized and known but unnamed species. [2] Wikipedia lists 109 species in this family. The low-eye catfish (previously family Hypophthalmidae), and thus the genus Hypophthalmus, which contains four species, was reclassified with the ...