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Protopterus annectens

Protopterus annectens

African Lungfish(+41)·(Owen, 1839)

GBIF:299479913

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 20 languages.

engAfrican LungfishengdeuAfrikanischer LungenfischdeuAgeeweAheeweBadamihau+37 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 20 languages.

engAfrican Lungfish
eng
deuAfrikanischer Lungenfisch
deu
Age
ewe
Ahe
ewe
Badami
hau
Barko
hau
Bodami
hau
Bunyi N'gel
kau
rusBuryi Protopter
rus
Bénin'gal
kau
Bôda
hau
Ebii
ibo
Gaiwa
hau
Gaiwa Chi Jikinki
hau
Gôda
hau
Juala
hau
Kifi Ntabo
hau
Kuta
yor
afrLongvis
afr
engLungfish
eng
Mai Mama
hau
swaMamba
swa
Maoundé
bam
engMudfish
eng
porPeixe-pulmonado-da-áfrica-ocidental
por
spaPez pulmonado africano occidental
spa
polPrapletwiec Brunatny a. Skrzelec
pol
sweSlamfisk
swe
engSouthern Lungfish
eng
engTana Lungfish
eng
Touba
wol
Vestafrikansk Lungefisk
engWest African lungfish
eng
deuWestafrikanischer Lungenfisch
deu
Wõndo
bam
finafrikankeuhkokala
fin
cesbahník západoafrický
ces
polprapłetwiec brunatny
pol
Élé
rusБурый протоптер
rus
araسمكة رئوية غرب أفريقية
ara
zho原鰭魚
zho

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Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299479913
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2441257
Taxon ID
4N6R6
Last Crawled
5/28/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026
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