The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·617541SpeciesActinopterygii1 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Ray-finned Fishes
  5. ›Bonytongues and mooneyes
  6. ›Bonytongues
  7. ›Elephantfishes
  8. ›Petrocephalus
Petrocephalus bane
Plate 1 of 1. George Albert Boulenger , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist

Petrocephalus bane

Petrocephalus bane is a species of elephantfish native to Africa where it occurs in the basins of the Nile, Bénoué and Volta rivers and the Chad Basin. It prefers relatively still waters of lakes, irrigation canals and lagoons. This species can reach a length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) SL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

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

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Petrocephalus bane in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 617541.