Tanganikallabes mortiauxi • Clariidae • Cat-eLog

Cat-eLog Data Sheet
Scientific Name	**Tanganikallabes mortiauxi** Poll, 1943
Common Name(s)	None
Type Locality	Albertville [Kalemie], Zaire [Democratic Republic of Congo], Lake Tanganyika.
Species Information
Size	330mm (13") SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
Identification	The head gives the impression of being separated from the more powerful back half of the body. The eyes are small even being placed on a strongly reduced skull. Clarias have very well-developed skull bones and the entire top of the head (neurocranium) is bony, while Tanganikallabes has smaller skull bones that allow the jaw muscles to invade onto the roof of the head. This is most apparent in the region behind the eye, where you can see small bulges on the head behind the eyes. The pectoral fin spines lack serration. The dorsal and anal fins end immediately before the caudal fin and are both partly united with the caudal peduncle. The caudal fin itself is round. The dorsal fin has 70-72 rays, the anal fin 50-53. The skin is uniform blackish-brown and somewhat warty and wrinkled. According to Poll(1953), "uniform blackish brown in colour, lighter towards the belly".
Sexing	In ventral view especially, females are much broader in the body than males of equal age and rearing practices.
General Remarks	Endemic to Lake Tanganyika.
Habitat Information
Distribution	Africa: Lake Tanganyika, lakewide distribution. African Waters, Western Rift Valley Lakes, Tanganyika (click on these areas to find other species found there) (Click the map-icon to show/hide map of species distribution)
Husbandry Information
Feeding	The diet of the type specimen consisted of insect larvae on the basis of gut analysis. In another study six specimens combined contained eggs of fish, crab remains, shrimp, insect larvae and in one specimen a single juvenile Synodontis.
Furniture	In the wild likely to inhabit rocky bottoms at a range of depths.
Breeding	Unknown
Further Information
References	Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines v. 37 (no. 1-2) The Catfishes of Africa,Seegers,pg 275. Wright, JJ & RM Bailey, 2012. Systematic revision of the formerly monotypic genus Tanganikallabes (Siluriformes: Clariidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 121â€“142.
Registered Keepers	(1) worton[pl]. Click on a username above to see all that persons registered catfish species. You can also view all "my cats" data for this species.
Breeding Reports	None.
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Cat-eLog Data Sheet

Scientific Name

Tanganikallabes mortiauxi Poll, 1943

Common Name(s)

None

Type Locality

Albertville [Kalemie], Zaire [Democratic Republic of Congo], Lake Tanganyika.

Species Information

Size

330mm (13") SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.

Identification

The head gives the impression of being separated from the more powerful back half of the body. The eyes are small even being placed on a strongly reduced skull. Clarias have very well-developed skull bones and the entire top of the head (neurocranium) is bony, while Tanganikallabes has smaller skull bones that allow the jaw muscles to invade onto the roof of the head. This is most apparent in the region behind the eye, where you can see small bulges on the head behind the eyes.

The pectoral fin spines lack serration. The dorsal and anal fins end immediately before the caudal fin and are both partly united with the caudal peduncle. The caudal fin itself is round. The dorsal fin has 70-72 rays, the anal fin 50-53. The skin is uniform blackish-brown and somewhat warty and wrinkled.

According to Poll(1953), "uniform blackish brown in colour, lighter towards the belly".

Sexing

In ventral view especially, females are much broader in the body than males of equal age and rearing practices.

General Remarks

Endemic to Lake Tanganyika.

Habitat Information

Distribution

Africa: Lake Tanganyika, lakewide distribution.
African Waters, Western Rift Valley Lakes, Tanganyika (click on these areas to find other species found there)

(Click the map-icon to show/hide map of species distribution)

Husbandry Information

Feeding

The diet of the type specimen consisted of insect larvae on the basis of gut analysis. In another study six specimens combined contained eggs of fish, crab remains, shrimp, insect larvae and in one specimen a single juvenile Synodontis.

Furniture

In the wild likely to inhabit rocky bottoms at a range of depths.

Breeding

Unknown

Further Information

References

Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines v. 37 (no. 1-2) The Catfishes of Africa,Seegers,pg 275. Wright, JJ & RM Bailey, 2012. Systematic revision of the formerly monotypic genus Tanganikallabes (Siluriformes: Clariidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 121â€“142.

Registered Keepers

(1) worton[pl].

Click on a username above to see all that persons registered catfish species. You can also view all "my cats" data for this species.

Breeding Reports

None.