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Protopterus aethiopicus

Protopterus aethiopicus

Heckel, 1851

GBIF:155300464

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PROFILE

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Habitat

Freshwater

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Geographic Distribution(2)

Kenya
Kenya

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IDENTIFIERS

External Identifiers(1)

To GenBank (1286 nucleotides; 101 proteins)

NCBI:txid7886

UNKNOWN

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References(3)

  • 1

    Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).

    basis of record
  • 2

    Heckel, J. J. (1851). Ueber eine neue Fisch-Species aus dem Weissen Nil, Propterus [sic] aethiopicus. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> v. 6 (pt 2): 685-689.

    original description
  • 3

    Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1).

  • Source Information

    World Register of Marine Species

    World Register of Marine Species

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    An authoritative classification and catalogue of marine names. To obtain a full copy, please go to https://www.marinespecies.org/usersrequest.php

    WoRMS Editorial Board (2026). World Register of Marine Species. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.14284/170 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

    CC BYPublished 6/1/2026View dataset
    GBIF Usage Key
    155300464
    Dataset Key
    2d59e5db-57ad-41ff-97d6-11f5fb264527
    Origin
    source
    Backbone Key
    4287144
    Taxon ID
    urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1021560
    Last Crawled
    6/4/2026
    Last Interpreted
    6/4/2026