''Euchilichthys'' is a
genus
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of
upside-down catfishes native to the
Congo River Basin
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in
Middle Africa
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.
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Euchilichthys astatodon''
( Pellegrin, 1928)
* ''
Euchilichthys boulengeri''
Nichols Nichols may refer to:
People
*Nichols (surname)
*Nichol, a surname
Places Canada
* Nichols Islands, Nunavut
United States
* Nichols, California, an unincorporated community
* Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, California
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& La Monte, 1934
* ''
Euchilichthys dybowskii''
( Vaillant, 1892)
* ''
Euchilichthys guentheri''
( Schilthuis, 1891)
* ''
Euchilichthys royauxi''
Boulenger Boulenger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Benjamin Boulenger (born 1990), French footballer
* Edward George Boulenger (1888–1946), British zoologist, director of aquarium at London Zoo
* George Albert Boulenger (1858–1 ...
, 1902
Description
''Euchilichthys'' species have the lips and part of the
barbels
In fish anatomy and turtle anatomy, a barbel is a slender, whiskerlike sensory organ near the mouth. Fish that have barbels include the catfish, the carp, the goatfish, the hagfish, the sturgeon, the zebrafish, the black dragonfish and some ...
modified into a
suckermouth In fish, a suckermouth is a ventrally-oriented (inferior) mouth adapted for grazing on algae and small organisms that grow on submerged objects.
All Loricariidae possess a suckermouth as do the cypriniform algae eaters of the genus ''Gyrinocheilus' ...
.
References
Mochokidae
Catfish of Africa
Freshwater fish genera
Catfish genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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