Hyperopisus bebe (Lacepède 1803)

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Environment:

demersal; potamodromous (Ref. 51243); freshwater; brackish

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Potamodromous. Migrating within streams, migratory in rivers, e.g. Saliminus, Moxostoma, Labeo. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km.

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Inhabits both still and flowing waters, breeds in the flood season. Feeds on mollusks.

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Barcode data: Hyperopisus bebe:

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


No available public DNA sequences.

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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Hyperopisus bebe:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
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., Lalèyè, P. & Vreven, E.

Reviewer/s

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

Contributor/s

Justification

This species has a wide enough distribution, with no known major widespread threats, to qualify as Least Concern. It has also been assessed regionally as Least Concern for north eastern Africa. It is only known from Lake Nasser with its North African distribution, and more survey work is needed to confirm the full extent of this species' distribution, and it is therefore categorized as Data Deficient in that region.
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Population:

Population

In north Africa it is very rare, however at Khartoum it is said to be the commonest of all the mormyrids, occurring throughout the year and in large numbers during spring.

Population Trend

Unknown
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Threats:

Major Threats

In northern Africa, dams, water pollution (agriculture, domestic and commercial/industrial), groundwater extraction and drought pose possible threats.
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Biology:

Inhabits both still and flowing waters, breeds in the flood season. Feeds on mollusks (Ref. 28714). 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). Its electric organ discharge (EOD) is steroid-sensitive (Ref. 10763; 10764). Fecundity value of 18,924 eggs has been reported for this species (Ref. 10607).

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Least Concern (LC)

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