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| Scientific Name | Synodontis fuelleborni Hilgendorf & Pappenheim, 1903 |
| Common Name(s) | None |
| Type Locality | Songwe, Lake Rukwa, east of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania. |
| Pronunciation | sin oh don tiss |
| Etymology | Synodontis: From the Greek syn, meaning together, and odontos, meaning tooth; in reference to the closely-spaced lower jaw teeth. In honour of the German surgeon-major and anthropologist Prof. Dr. F. Fulleborn (18661933). |
| Species Information | |
| Size | 180mm (7.1") SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp. |
| Identification | All species in the genus Synodontis have a hardened head cap that has attached a process (humeral process) which is situated behind the gill opening and pointed towards the posterior. The dorsal fin and pectoral fins have a hardened first ray which is serrated. Caudal fin is always forked. There is one pair of maxillary barbels, sometimes having membranes and occasionally branched. The two pairs of mandibular barbels are often branched and can have nodes attached. The cone-shaped teeth in the upper jaw are short. S-shaped and movable in the lower jaw. These fish produce audible sounds when disturbed rubbing the base of the pectoral spine against the pectoral girdle. Ricardo (1939a: 651) wrote:"Dark yellowish green, mottled or marbled with bright yellow; fins grey with dark spots arranged rather irregularly in transverse series.". From Seegers: a freshly caught fish was bright yellow with an olive tinge, mottled or marbled with irregular dark olive brown spots. Thes spots partly merged and formed large areas on the body which are separated from each other by thin irregular lines or bands of bright yellow. In captivity this bright yellow ground colour got darker and the marbling became more prominent. The colouration of the juveniles shows a pattern which is more coarse than that of the adults but in general is quite similar.The species shows some changes from juveniles to adults, but these changes are not very dramatic. |
| General Remarks | Fishbase lists 192mm TL. Specimens recorded from the Rufigi system may be a different species. |
| Habitat Information | |
| Distribution | Africa: Lake Rukwa and Rufigi basin in Tanzania. African Waters  , Southern Rift Lakes, Rukwa (hover or click on these areas to show maps or find other species found there)African Waters , Tanzania coastal waters, Rufigi (hover or click on these areas to show maps or find other species found there) |
| Temperature | 20.0-25.0°C or 68-77°F (Show others within this range) |
| Husbandry Information | |
| Feeding | Mann (1964a)concluded that there was a more dominant vegetable component in the diet. |
| Breeding | Unreported. It is thought they spawn in the wild in April or May. |
| Further Information | |
| References | Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin1903 (no. 6) - pp265 The Fishes of the Lake Rukwa Drainage,Seegers pg.240 |
| Registered Keepers | None.  Add this species to your "my cats" page. |
| Breeding Reports | None. |
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| Last Update | 2009 Feb 10 15:24 (species record created: 2004 Nov 27 00:00) |
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