Real photoREAL PHOTO
Kneriidae
Naked Shellear
Cromeria occidentalis
Kneriid Fish in the Niger Basin
- Tropical
- Upper river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Elongated
SmallNaked Shellear is known around Africa as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 4.4 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Kneriidae
- Genus
- Cromeria
- Maximum length
- 4.4 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Africa: basins of upper and middle Niger River, Benoué and upper Volta in Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Cameroon (Ref. 57474 ), Chad (Ref. 367 ) and Ivory Coast (Ref. 3066 ). Probably also in Togo, Nigeria and Niger (Ref. 57474 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
