Marcusenius cyprinoides
Nile, from the Delta to Bahr-el-Jebel, Niger and Chad basins, Bénoué River. See FishBase for museum records and localities.
Nile, from the Delta to Bahr-el-Jebel, Niger and Chad basins, Bénoué River. See FishBase for museum records and localities.
demersal; potamodromous (Ref. 51243); freshwater
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Potamodromous. Migrating within streams, migratory in rivers, e.g. Saliminus, Moxostoma, Labeo. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km.
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Feeds mainly on insects and crustaceans (Ref. 6160).
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 5 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 5
Specimens with Barcodes: 5
Species With Barcodes: 1
Red List Criteria
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Inhabits lakes. Bottom feeding insectivore. Breeds during flood season and enters the floodplain for this purpose (Ref. 28714). Shows three 'preferred' modes of intervals between electric organ discharges (inter-EOD) when at rest: 10-35 ms, 50-120 ms and 200-350 ms (Ref. 10833).
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Population
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This species is known from Nigeria to Chad, and the entire length of the Nile.
Northern Africa: It is present but rare in whole Egyptian River Nile.
Northeast Africa: It is found in the Ghazal and jebel systems, and the White Nile, Blue Nile, and Nile to Lake Nasser (also known as Lake Nubia), Sudan. In Ethiopia it is found in the Baro River.
Western Africa: It is found in the Chad basin, the Benue and lower Niger.
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Major Threats
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