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GBIF·2342035speciesAnimalia7 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSiluriformes
  4. ›familyMalapteruridae
  5. ›genusMalapterurus
Malapterurus tanoensis: museum & herbarium specimens

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IUCN LC · Least concern

Electric catfish

Malapterurus tanoensis Roberts, 2000

Also calledpasumec ghanský (ces)

First described in: Roberts, T. R. (2000). A review of the African electric catfish family Malapteruridae, with descriptions of new species. <em>Occasional Papers in Ichthyology.</em> 1: 1-15.

Malapterurus tanoensis is a species of electric catfish native to Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana where it occurs in the Ofin and Tano Rivers.

This species grows to a length of 26 centimetres (10 in) SL.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2342035.