Leptoglanis Xenognathus

📖 Overview

Overview information for Leptoglanis Xenognathus is currently being compiled by our editorial team.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

Vertebrae: 38 - 41. Anterior margin of mouth with a single large medial fleshy lobe and several lateral fleshy lobes of variable size . Premaxillary with toothless anterior portion, posterior portion with slender conical teeth . Lower jaw toothless and exceptionally elongate . Coronomeckelian bone exceptionally large and well defined . Hyomandibular and quadrate joined by a complex joint consisting of a cartilaginous ball partially enclosed by bony sockets . An exceptionally short braincase . Pharynx and gill arches with numerous soft fleshy fingerlike or digitiform structures . Pectoral and pelvic fins excessively branched . Number of principal caudal fin rays: 7+8 . In life this species has a milk-white body, with fine, faint melanophores concentrated just above and below lateral line canal and in dorsal portions of myoseptal troughs . Two broad oblique bands on the dorsal fin, two broad vertical bands on the caudal fin and a single broad band in the middle of the pectoral fin, all composed of brownish melanophores ; anal fin with a few fine melanophores on some rays, otherwise colorless ; adipose and pelvic fins without notable color features .: elongated.

🌀 Behaviour

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🦐 Diet

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🥚 Reproduction

Reproduction data for Leptoglanis Xenognathus is currently being compiled.

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Freshwater; demersal. Tropical Central African Republic (Ref.

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

🛡️ Conservation Assessment

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

🐠 Related Species

🔍 Similar Species

🗺️ Global Occurrence Map

Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 14 records indexed .

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