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Lutefishes
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Lutefishes

Citharinidae

The Citharinidae, the lutefishes, are a small family of characiform fish. They are freshwater fish native to Africa, and are sufficiently abundant to be significant food fishes.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 8 known species

Citharinus

genusCitharinus

Citharinops

genusCitharinops

Citharidium

genusCitharidium

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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 85696.