''Bathyclarias'' is a genus of
airbreathing catfish
Airbreathing catfish comprise the family Clariidae of the order Siluriformes. Sixteen genera and about 116 species of clariid fishes are described; all are freshwater species. Other groups of catfish also breathe air, such as the Callichthyidae ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to
Lake Malawi
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
It is the fifth largest f ...
in Africa.
[Anseaume, L.; and G.G. Teugels (1999). On the rehabilitation of the clariid catfish genus Bathyclarias endemic to the East African Rift Lake Malawi. Fish Biology 55(2): 405–419. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1999.tb00687.x] Several are components of local
commercial fisheries
Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often p ...
.
Species
There are currently contains eight recognized species:
* ''
Bathyclarias atribranchus''
( Greenwood, 1961)
* ''
Bathyclarias eurydon''
P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
* ''
Bathyclarias filicibarbis''
P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
* ''
Bathyclarias foveolatus''
( P. B. N. Jackson, 1955)
* ''
Bathyclarias longibarbis''
( Worthington, 1933)
* ''
Bathyclarias nyasensis''
( Worthington, 1933)
* ''
Bathyclarias rotundifrons''
P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
* ''
Bathyclarias worthingtoni''
P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
References
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Catfish genera
Freshwater fish genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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