''Citharinops distichodoides'' is a species of

lutefish The Citharinidae, the lutefishes, are a small family of characiform fish. They are freshwater fish native to Africa, and are sufficiently abundant to be significant food fishes. They are deep-bodied, silvery fish, measuring up to in length and ...

found in

tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. It is the only member of its genus and consists of two recognized subspecies" * ''C. d. distichodoides'' ( Pellegrin, 1919) * ''C. d. thomasi'' (Pellegrin, 1924)

References

* Characiformes Monotypic fish genera Fish of Africa Taxa named by Jacques Pellegrin Fish described in 1919 {{Characiformes-stub