Mottled bichir (Polypterus weeksii)

General data

Main name: Mottled bichir
Climates: Tropical, Arid (desert)
Habitat: Freshwater
Native: Africa
Distribution: Congo River

Classification

Genus: Polypterus - Bichirs
Family: Polypteridae - Bichirs
Order: Polypteriformes - Bichirs
Class: Cladistii - Bichirs
Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes

Description

Polypterus weeksii, the mottled bichir, is a fish in the family Polypteridae found in the central basin of the Congo River. It grows to about 54 cm in head-to-tail length. Named in honor of John Henry Weeks (1861-1924), Baptist missionary, ethnographer, explorer and diarist, who collected type at his mission station in Monsembe, upper Congo River, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Mottled bichir (Polypterus weeksii)

General data

Classification

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Taxonomy of Fishes