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GBIF·2402510speciesAnimalia213 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderOsteoglossiformes
  4. ›familyMormyridae
  5. ›genusMarcusenius
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Thick-lipped Fish

Marcusenius cyprinoides (Linnaeus, 1758)

Also calledAnoma (ara) · Diklippige kofferling (nld) · Um Shiffa (ara) · Umm-shififah (ara) · Umma-shafa Shafafah (ara) · rypoun kapří (ces) · Карповидный гнатонем (rus)

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Marcusenius cyprinoides in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2402510.