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Rock Catfishes
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Rock Catfishes

Austroglanis

Austroglanis is the only genus in the catfish family Austroglanididae. This family was split off from the Bagridae catfish family. All three species of catfishes in the family Austroglanididae are endemic to southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia), and two species are threatened.

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

Common Rock Catfish

speciesAustroglanis sclateri

Clanwilliam Rock Catfish

speciesAustroglanis gilli

Barnard's Rock Catfish

speciesAustroglanis barnardi

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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 86778.