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Mastacembelidae
Spiny eel
Mastacembelus congicus
Eel of the Congo Basin
- Tropical
- Lower river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Anguilliform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Anguilliform
MediumSpiny eel is known around Africa as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and records give a maximum length of 43.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Swamp Eels
- Family
- Mastacembelidae
- Genus
- Mastacembelus
- Maximum length
- 43.5 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Africa: widespread throughout the Congo River basin in Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ref. 2970 ), Cameroon (Ref. 51193 ), Angola (Ref. 11970 , 120641 ), Central African Republic (Ref. 45441 ) and Zambia (Ref. 95585 ). Also reported from the lower Chari-Logone system (Lake Chad basin) in Chad (Ref. 57415 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
