Kibonde
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The Kibonde or salmontail catfish, Chrysichthys brachynema, is a Lake Tanganyikan catfish of the family Claroteidae, occasionally kept in aquariums. This fish may be listed as Amarginops brachynema.
Species
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSiluriformes
- FamilyBagridae
Habitatfreshwater
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Chrysichthys
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Chrysichthys brachynema
- taxon common name
- Kibonde
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The Kibonde or salmontail catfish, Chrysichthys brachynema, is a Lake Tanganyikan catfish of the family Claroteidae, occasionally kept in aquariums. This fish may be listed as Amarginops brachynema.
This fish may reach up to . It inhabits inshore areas of the lake and feeds mainly on crabs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kibonde” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.