FB-2447 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Siluriformes Schilbeidae Schilbe Schilbe mystus (Linnaeus, 1758) Tasaa Botterbaber Botter-baber Silwerbaber Shilba arabie Shilba seefarea Shilbaya aravbia Umm dankis Impata Lupata Afrikansk smørmalle African butter catfish African glass catfish Butter barbel Butter catfish Butter fish Butterfish Lubangu Mystus catfish Silver barbel Silver catfish Gada-sagbadakoe Gada-sofla Hopeamonni Viherkuultomonni Vihertäplälasimonni Balo Harya Nalanga Bambui Mtanda Nembe Silvermal Khèle Asan Aglung Atyeno Badigiri Bou- anyi Cur Dande Doring Elangi Gari Kanzema Let Longre Nzengenzenge Siyɛgwɛ Then Tidga Zare Zeza 尼罗河锡伯鲶 尼罗龙骨鲶 尼羅河錫伯鯰 尼羅龍骨鯰 鍚伯鯰 钖伯鲶 Bagrus adansonii Valenciennes, 1840 Bagrus schilbeides Valenciennes, 1840 Bagrus schilbeoides Valenciennes, 1840 Bagrus schilboides Valenciennes, 1840 Eutropius adansonii (Valenciennes, 1840) Eutropius altipinnis Steindachner, 1894 Eutropius congensis (non Leach, 1818) Eutropius grenfelli (non Boulenger, 1900) Eutropius liberiensis (non Hubrecht, 1881) Eutropius mentalis (non Boulenger, 1901) Eutropius nilotica (Rüppell, 1829) Eutropius niloticus (Rüppell, 1829) Eutropius niloticus niloticus (Rüppell, 1829) Eutropius obtusirostris Günther, 1864 Eutropius sp. 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(Ref. 137577) Lucas, M.C., E. Baras, T.J. Thom, A. Duncan and O. Slavík0 Migration of freshwater fishes. Blackwell Science Ltd. 440 p. (Ref. 138143) FB-pic-2447-13724 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif FAO 1997-03-05 1999-02-28 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Scmys_u0.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Scmys_u0.gif FB-GeneralDescr-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1991-03-06 00:00:00 2025-11-19 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ John E. Randall General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 Lacustrine as well as fluviatile species, confined to lakes and moderate to large rivers (Ref. 43912). Adults shoal in standing or slowly flowing open water with emergent or submerged vegetation. Generally more active at night or in subdued light. They feed from mid-water and surface waters on a wide variety of foods including fish, insects, shrimps, snails, plant seeds, and fruit. Oviparous, eggs are unguarded (Ref. 205). Often important spawning migrations occur (Ref. 43912). They breed during the rainy season and may be either a single or multiple spawner in different localities, laying eggs on vegetation. May live up to 6-7 years (Ref. 7248). Max total length 45.0mm (Ref. 43912). Also caught with drawnets. In general considered as a flavoured, first class eating fish (Ref. 43912). De Vos, L. 1995 A systematic revision of the African Schilbeidae (Teleostei, Siluriformes). With an annotated bibliography. Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Centr., Sci. Zool., 271:1-450. (Ref. 43912) FB-DiagnosticDescr-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1993-02-01 00:00:00 2019-02-25 19:09:57 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ John E. Randall General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 Diagnosis: adipose fin present (Ref. 43912, 57127, 81643) and fully developed (Ref. (Ref. 57127, 81643). Anterior nostrils more closer to each other than to posterior ones; inner margin of pectoral-fin spine strongly denticulate posteriorly (Ref. 43912, 57127, 81643). Nasal barbel reaching to anterior eye margin (Ref. 57127, 81643), but never extending beyond posterior margin of eye (Ref. 43912, 57127, 81643). Mouth subterminal (Ref. 57127, 81643), snout reaching beyond lower jaw (Ref. 43912). 45-64 branched anal-fin rays and 8-15 gill rakers on lower limb of first gill arch (Ref. 43912, 57127, 81643).Description: 10 branchiostegal rays on one side of head; caudal peduncle longer than deep. nasal and inner mandibular barbel never reach beyond posterior border of eye; maxillary barbel at least reaches to anterior border of eye and at maximum to just beyond posterior border of opercle; outer mandibular barbel at maximum reaches to just beyond anterior border of opercle; posterior border of dorsal spine feebly serrated (Ref. 43912). Schilbe mystus is, in many respects, strikingly similar to S. grenfelli, and also seems closely related to S. banguelensis and S. nyongensis, both species with the anterior nostrils closer to each other than the posterior ones and with a rather small inferior mouth; S. grenfelli and S. mystus are allopatric species, the inner side of the pectoral spine being finely serrated in the former while coarsely serrated in the latter; in S. banguelensis the nasal barbel always reaches beyond the orbit and the inner side of the pectoral spine is feebly serrated; in S. nyongensis the nasals barbel always reaches beyond the orbit while it never reaches beyond the eye in S. mystus (Ref. 43912).Coloration: ground colour generally silvery-white; head and back brownish, fins usually colourless (Ref. 57127) or pale yellow (Ref. 81643), sometimes tinged with black (Ref. 43912). Flanks and belly usually whitish, silver (Ref. 81643). De Vos, L. 2003 Schilbeidae. p. 97-116 In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douce et saumâtres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Tome 2. Coll. Faune et Flore tropicales 40. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Museum National d'Histoire Naturalle, Paris, France and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France. 815 p. (Ref. 57127) FB-Morphology-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1993-02-01 00:00:00 2019-02-25 19:09:57 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ John E. Randall General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 6 De Vos, L. 2003 Schilbeidae. p. 97-116 In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douce et saumâtres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Tome 2. Coll. Faune et Flore tropicales 40. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Museum National d'Histoire Naturalle, Paris, France and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France. 815 p. (Ref. 57127) FB-Distribution-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1991-03-06 00:00:00 2019-01-24 22:10:52 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ John E. Randall General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 Africa: Nilo-Sudanese species, known from the Nile basin and in West Africa from the Senegal River eastwards to the Cross, Wouri and Sanaga River, including the Chad basin (Ref. 43912). Various reports, including from the Ogowe and Congo River basin or Zambia and Zimbabwe, are based on misidentifications (Ref. 43912). Reports from Angola and Tanzania are questionable and need confirmation. De Vos, L. 1995 A systematic revision of the African Schilbeidae (Teleostei, Siluriformes). With an annotated bibliography. Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Centr., Sci. Zool., 271:1-450. (Ref. 43912) FB-Uses-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1991-03-06 00:00:00 2025-11-19 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ John E. Randall General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes; aquarium: commercial Eccles, D.H. 1992 FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Field guide to the freshwater fishes of Tanzania. Prepared and published with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (project URT/87/016). FAO, Rome. 145 p. (Ref. 4967) Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott 1991 World fishes important to North Americans. Exclusive of species from the continental waters of the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (21):243 p. (Ref. 4537) Riehl, R. and H.A. Baensch 1991 Aquarien Atlas. Band. 1. Melle: Mergus, Verlag für Natur-und Heimtierkunde, Germany. 992 p. (Ref. 1672) FB-Migration-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1991-03-06 00:00:00 2025-11-19 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription Potamodromous. Migrating within streams, migratory in rivers, e.g. Saliminus, Moxostoma, Labeo. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km. Lucas, M.C., E. Baras, T.J. Thom, A. Duncan and O. Slavík 2001 Migration of freshwater fishes. Blackwell Science Ltd. 440 p. (Ref. 138143) FB-LifeCycle-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1991-03-06 00:00:00 2025-11-19 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=2447&StockCode=2641 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology Distinct pairing (Ref. 205). Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen 1966 Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p. (Ref. 205) FB-TrophicStrategy-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1992-06-08 00:00:00 2004-09-16 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public mystus http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Important but occurs only seasonally in Lake Victoria (Ref. 4967). Frequency of occurence in Caprivi: occasionally in sandy streams, occasionally on rocky streams, common in standing deep water, abundant in shallow swamps, and occasionally in shallow flood plains (Ref. 037065). Feeds largely on insects (Ref. 3681). Whitehead, V. 1969 Investigations into the food habits of some juvenile fish in the Volta Lake during the period from October 1969 to March 1969 with some notes on distribution and abundance. University of Ghana, Volta Research Project Tech. Rep. X30. (Ref. 3681) FB-Size-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1991-03-06 00:00:00 2025-11-19 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses 35.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 57127)); max. published weight: 250 g (Ref. 3799); max. reported age: 7 years (Ref. 7248) De Vos, L. 2003 Schilbeidae. p. 97-116 In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douce et saumâtres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Tome 2. Coll. Faune et Flore tropicales 40. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Museum National d'Histoire Naturalle, Paris, France and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France. 815 p. (Ref. 57127) Ita, E.O. 1984 Kainji (Nigeria). p. 43-103. In J.M. Kapetsky and T. Petr (eds.) Status of African reservoir fisheries. CIFA Tech. Pap. 10:326 p. (Ref. 3799) Skelton, P.H. 1993 A complete guide to the freshwater fishes of southern Africa. Southern Book Publishers. 388 p. (Ref. 7248) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Diseases-2447-1265 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Allan Palacio 2005-07-18 00:00:00 2005-07-18 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/diseases/diseasesList.cfm?ID=2447&StockCode=2641 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy Contracaecum Disease (larvae). Parasitic infestations (protozoa, worms, etc.) Paperna, I. 1996 Parasites, infections and diseases of fishes in Africa. An update. CIFA Tech. Pap. No. 31. 220 p. FAO, Rome. (Ref. 45600) FB-Diseases-2447-1429 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Allan Palacio 2005-01-10 00:00:00 2005-01-26 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/diseases/diseasesList.cfm?ID=2447&StockCode=2641 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Schilbetrema Infestation 1. Parasitic infestations (protozoa, worms, etc.) Khalil, L.F. and J.P. Thurston 1973 Studies on the helminth parasites of freshwater fishes of Uganda including the descriptions of two new species of digeneans. Rev. Zool. Bot. afr. 87(2):209-248. (Ref. 52494) FB-Diseases-2447-1430 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Allan Palacio 2005-01-10 00:00:00 2005-01-26 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/diseases/diseasesList.cfm?ID=2447&StockCode=2641 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Schilbetrema Infestation 2. Parasitic infestations (protozoa, worms, etc.) Khalil, L.F. and J.P. Thurston 1973 Studies on the helminth parasites of freshwater fishes of Uganda including the descriptions of two new species of digeneans. Rev. Zool. Bot. afr. 87(2):209-248. (Ref. 52494) FB-Habitat-2447 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1991-03-06 00:00:00 2025-11-19 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2447 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat demersal; potamodromous (Ref. 138143); freshwater; depth range 4 - 69 m Lucas, M.C., E. Baras, T.J. Thom, A. Duncan and O. Slavík 2001 Migration of freshwater fishes. Blackwell Science Ltd. 440 p. (Ref. 138143)