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Amphiliidae (Loach catfishes) > Doumeinae
Etymology: Phractura: Greek, phraktos = fence (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Claus Herluf Stenholt Clausen (1921–2002) was a California-born Danish ichthyologist and biologist. He collected in Liberia (1965). He wrote: Tropical Old World Cyprinodonts (1967). He collected the holotype. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; acqua dolce demersale. Tropical; 23°C - 27°C (Ref. 12468); 13°N - 6°N
Africa: Benue, lower Niger and Niger delta (Nigeria and Cameroon) to the (upper) Comoe (Burkina Faso); also reported from other coastal rivers such as the Ibu and Ogun (Nigeria) and Mono (Togo), as well as from the Volta basin (Ref. 57128).
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.8 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 57128)
Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 7; Spine anali: 2; Raggi anali molli: 7 - 9. Diagnosis: pectoral-fin tips not reaching to pelvic-fin bases; pelvic-fin insertions placed behind a vertical line from last dorsal-fin ray; snout long, its length over 55% of head length; posterior nostrils separated from orbits by a distance about equal to orbit width and not separated by bony crest; humeral process pointed; branchiostegal membrane with a shallow ventral invagination; width of occipital process comprised from 3.5-6 times in its length (Ref. 57128).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Skelton, P.H., L.M. Risch and D. Paugy, 2003. Amphiliidae. p. 117-143 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. 57128)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5001 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00244 - 0.04107), b=3.04 (2.81 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.1 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilienza (Ref.
120179): Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
