Mormyrus hasselquistii Valenciennes, 1847

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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Mormyrus hasselquistii:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 12
Specimens with Barcodes: 12
Species With Barcodes: 1

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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

Azeroual, A., Entsua-Mensah, M., Getahun, A. & Laly, P.

Reviewer/s

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

Contributor/s

Justification

This species has a wide distribution, with no known major widespread threats. It is therefore listed as Least Concern. It has also been assessed regionally as Least Concern for north eastern and western Africa. In north Africa, it is now Regionally Extinct. The construction of High Aswan Dam (1970) is believed to be the cause of the species extirpation from the region.
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Population:

Population

No information available.

Population Trend

Unknown
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Threats:

Major Threats

None known.
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Habitat and Ecology:

Habitat and Ecology

This species is demersal and potamodromous. It possesses electroreceptors over the entire head and on the ventral and dorsal regions of the body, but absent from the side and the caudal peduncle where the electric organ is located. A fractional spawner.

Systems

  • Freshwater
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Least Concern (LC)

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Biology:

Possesses electroreceptors over the entire head and on the ventral and dorsal regions of the body, but absent from the side and the caudal peduncle where the electric organ is located (Ref. 10011). A fractional spawner (Ref. 10605; 10606).

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Conservation Actions:

Conservation Actions

No information available.
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Range Description:

This species is widely distributed from Senegal to Ethiopia.

Northern Africa: It was recorded by Boulenger (1907) from Egyptian Lower Nile, but is now Regionally Extinct.

Northeast Africa: It is found in the Ghazal and Jebel systems, and White Nile to Khartoum, Sudan, as well as Baro River, Ethiopia.

Western Africa: This species is known from the Sahelo-Sudanese basins, the Sngal, Gambia and Volta, Gba, Bandama, Como, Mono and the lagoons Ebri and Aguien.

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Importance:

fisheries: commercial

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