WoRMS taxon details
Clarias ngamensis Castelnau, 1861
280203 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280203)
accepted
Species
Clarias melandi Boulenger, 1905 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Clarias mellandi Boulenger, 1905 · unaccepted
Clarias nagamensis Castelnau, 1861 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Clarias prentissgrayi (Fowler, 1930) · unaccepted
Dinopterus jallae Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Dinopterus pentissgrayi (Fowler, 1930) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Dinotopteroides prentissgrayi Fowler, 1930 · unaccepted
Dinotopterus jallae Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917 · unaccepted
Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Clarias ngamensis Castelnau, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280203 on 2025-04-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Dinotopteroides prentissgrayi Fowler, 1930) Fowler, H. W. (1930). The fresh-water fishes obtained by the Gray African Expedition--1929. With notes on other species in the Academy collection. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 82: 27-83. [details]
original description (of Dinotopteroides prentissgrayi Fowler, 1930) Fowler, H. W. (1930). The fresh-water fishes obtained by the Gray African Expedition--1929. With notes on other species in the Academy collection. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 82: 27-83. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Dinotopterus jallae Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Clarias mellandi Boulenger, 1905)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Clarias ngamensis)
To Fishbase (from synonym Dinotopterus jallae Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917)
To Fishbase (from synonym Dinotopteroides prentissgrayi Fowler, 1930)
To Fishbase (from synonym Clarias nagamensis Castelnau, 1861)
To Fishbase (from synonym Dinopterus jallae Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917)
To FishBase images (Clarias ngamensis, Angola, by Mertens, P.)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Clarias mellandi Boulenger, 1905; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3126220) (from synonym Clarias mellandi Boulenger, 1905)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Dinotopterus jallae Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Clarias mellandi Boulenger, 1905)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Clarias ngamensis)
To Fishbase (from synonym Dinotopterus jallae Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917)
To Fishbase (from synonym Dinotopteroides prentissgrayi Fowler, 1930)
To Fishbase (from synonym Clarias nagamensis Castelnau, 1861)
To Fishbase (from synonym Dinopterus jallae Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917)
To FishBase images (Clarias ngamensis, Angola, by Mertens, P.)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Clarias mellandi Boulenger, 1905; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3126220) (from synonym Clarias mellandi Boulenger, 1905)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
