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Mormyridae
Kolente stonebasher
Hippopotamyrus paugyi
Dark vertical stripes between fins
- Tropical
- Restricted distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Restricted distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
MediumKolente stonebasher is known around Africa as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and records give a maximum length of 25 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Bonytongues
- Family
- Mormyridae
- Genus
- Hippopotamyrus
- Maximum length
- 25 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Africa: Limited to the Atlantic face of the Guinean mountain range, known from Guinea (Konkouré and Kolenté Rivers), Sierra Leone (Little Scarcies, Jong, Moa and Mano Rivers), and Liberia (Saint Paul River).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
Conservation status
