Stomatorhinus puncticulatus
Distribution:
Congo River from Boma to Stanley Pool. See Fishbase for museum records and localities.
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Mormyridae
Stomatorhinus puncticulatus Boulenger, 1899
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Environment:
demersal; freshwater
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IUCN Red List Assessment:
Red List Category
LC
Least Concern
Red List Criteria
3.1
Year Assessed
2010
Assessor/s
Moelants, T.
Reviewer/s
Brummett, R., Mbe Tawe, A.N., Dening Touokong, C., Reid, G.M., Snoeks, J. Staissny, M., Moelants, T., Mamonekene, V., Ndodet, B., Ifuta, S.N.B., Chilala, A., Monsembula, R., Ibala Zamba, A., Opoye Itoua, O., Pouomogne, V., Darwall, W. & Smith, K.
Contributor/s
The species is widespread or without major threats throughout the Central Africa assessment region and is assessed as Least Concern.
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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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Least Concern (LC)
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Conservation Actions:
Conservation Actions
None known.
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Stomatorhinus puncticulatus Boulenger 1899 ZBK ,
2 (of 3) syntypes: MRAC 634, 635; non-types: CU 41319 (1).
- John P. Sullivan, Carl D. Hopkins (2005): A new Stomatorhinus (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Ivindo River, Gabon, West Central Africa. Zootaxa 847, 1-23: 21-21, URL:http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1D9DEAF9-DC73-492E-8CE2-0692627145A4
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General Description:
From Boulenger 1909, p. 88.
Depth of body 3 to 3 1/2 times in total length, length of head 4 times. Head hardly longer than deep; snout rounded, strongly projecting beyond mouth, 2/7 length of head; mouth small, its width 5 times in length of head; 7 teeth in upper jaw, 8 in lower; eye very small, 1/2 length of snout, 1/3 interorbital width. Dorsal 17-18, a little more than 1/2 as long as its distance from head. Anal 21-22, 7th ray corresponding to 1st of dorsal, slightly nearer base of ventral than base of caudal. Pectoral pointed, slightly shorter than head, twice length of ventral, reaching nearly extremity of latter. Caudal with long, obtusely pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle 3 1/2 times as long as deep, 4/5 to 5/6 length of head. 52-55 scales in lateral line, 8-9 / 13-14 in transverse series on body, 10 / 8-9 in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 16 round caudal peduncle. Purplish brown, dotted all over with blackish; dorsal and anal fins darker in front.
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Range Description:
Stomatorhinus puncticulatus is known from Pool Malebo (Stanley Pool) and from the Lower and Central Congo River basin, including the Boumba River, Dja River basin in Cameroon. It is not known more upstream than the bifurcation from the Ubangui and the Congo River. Stomatorhinus puncticulatus is not known from the Luknie, Kwango and Kasai systems.
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Africa: lower Congo (Ref. 1877, 1878, 41591) and Pool Malebo (Ref. 41585) in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also reported from the Chiloango (Ref. 1877) but unconfirmed in Ref. 81635. Report from the Rio Cuebe (Okavango basin) in Angola (Ref. 89016) questionable and needs verification.
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