''Citharinus latus'' 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 ...

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Distribution

Found in Africa: where it is known from Senegal, Casamance, Niger, Volta, the Chad basin and certain coastal rivers in Guinéa-Bissau, Togo and Benin. . Also has been found in the Nile and Lake Mobutu Sese Seko (Lake Albert).

Size

The fish can get as large as 84.0 cm.

References

*Gosse, J.-P., 1990. Citharinidae. p. 261-268. In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douces et saumâtres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest. Tome I. Coll. Faune Tropicale n° XXVIII. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren and O.R.S.T.O.M., Paris, 384 p. Characiformes Fish of Africa Taxa named by Johannes Peter Müller Taxa named by Franz Hermann Troschel Fish described in 1844 {{Characiformes-stub