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Austroglanis

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Austroglanis

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Austroglanis is the only genus in the catfish family Austroglanididae. This family was split off from the Bagridae catfish family.[1] All three species of catfishes in the family Austroglanididae are endemic to southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia), and two species are threatened.[2]

These fish have three pairs of barbels (they lack nasal barbels). They have strong dorsal and pectoral fin spines. The adipose fin is small.[1]

Species

There are currently three described species in this genus:[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Nelson, Joseph, S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
  2. ^ Bruton, Michael N. (1996). "Threatened fishes of the world: Austroglanis barnardi (Skelton, 1981) (Austroglanididae)". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 45 (4): 382. doi:10.1007/BF00002530.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Austroglanis in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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Austroglanis: Brief Summary

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Austroglanis is the only genus in the catfish family Austroglanididae. This family was split off from the Bagridae catfish family. All three species of catfishes in the family Austroglanididae are endemic to southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia), and two species are threatened.

These fish have three pairs of barbels (they lack nasal barbels). They have strong dorsal and pectoral fin spines. The adipose fin is small.

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