Chrysichthys

<i>Chrysichthys</i>

Chrysichthys

Genus of fishes

Chrysichthys is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa. Two fossil species are known. Chrysichthys macrotis, Van Neer, 1994, is known from the Miocene-Pliocene of the Albertine Rift in Uganda and Chrysichthys mahengeensis, Murray & Budney, 2003, is known from the Eocene of Mahenge, Tanzania.[1]

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Species

There are currently 42 recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Chrysichthys in FishBase. December 2011 version.


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