Mormyrops breviceps Steindachner, 1894

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IUCN Red List Assessment:
Red List Category

LC
Least Concern

Red List Criteria

Version

3.1

Year Assessed

2010

Assessor/s

Entsua-Mensah, M., Laly, P. & Moelants, T.

Reviewer/s

Snoeks, J., Tweddle, D., Getahun, A., Laly, P., Paugy, D., Zaiss, R., Fishar, M.R.A & Brooks, E.

Contributor/s

Justification

Although there are some localised threats from mining to populations in western Africa, this species is widespread enough not to qualify for a threatened status, and is therefore assessed as Least Concern. It is also assessed as Least Concern for western Africa. It is estimated that less than 5 % of the species is found in the Lower Guinea region, and is therefore categorised as Not Applicable for central Africa.
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Population:

Population

No information available.

Population Trend

Unknown
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Threats:

Major Threats

Pollution from mining is threatening some populations in western Africa.
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Least Concern (LC)

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Conservation Actions:

Conservation Actions

None known. Population trends should be monitored, and habitat conservation and restoration is required.
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Importance:

aquarium: commercial

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Biology:

Affinities: morphologically similar to M. anguilloides (Ref. 2915).

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Range Description:

This species is known from scattered locations from Guinea Bissau to Ghana, with one additional recording in Cameroon.

Central Africa: In Lower Guinea, Mormyrops breviceps is known from a single specimen from the Mvi River, Sanaga River basin, Cameroon.

Western Africa: The distributional area of this species seems to be restricted to the Volta, the rivers of Cte d'Ivoire and Ghana, and some coastal rivers of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau (Culufi). However it might be assumed that M. breviceps in fact occurs within a coastal band extending from the Volta rivers to Guinea Bissau.

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Africa: Restricted to the Volta, rivers in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia and Guinea-Bissau (St. Paul, Mano and Culufi Rivers).

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West-central Africa.

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