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Mastacembelidae
Blind spiny eel
Mastacembelus brichardi
Fish Reaching Seventeen Centimeters in the Congo Basin
- Tropical
- Lower river
- Upper river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Anguilliform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Anguilliform
MediumBlind spiny eel is a freshwater fish found around Africa. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 17 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Swamp Eels
- Family
- Mastacembelidae
- Genus
- Mastacembelus
- Maximum length
- 17 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Africa: rapids of the Lower Congo River (Ref. 42510 , 84205 , 94499 ) and the Congo River main channel just upstream of Pool Malebo (Ref. 84205 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
