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Cyprinidae
Papermouth
Enteromius mattozi
Carp beneath the Congo Basin
- Tropical
- Upper river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
MediumPapermouth is a freshwater fish from Africa. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 40 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Enteromius
- Maximum length
- 40 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- Africa: Limpopo system, headwaters of Gwai-Zambezi (Zimbabwe), Kwando (upper Zambezi)(Ref. 52193 ) and Cunene (Ref. 52193 , 120641 ). Also in the rivers Curoca (Ref. 120641 ) and Quanza (Ref. 11970 , 120641 ) in Angola and the upper Lualaba (upper Congo River basin) in Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ref. 45434 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Order
Family
Conservation status
