Uegitglanis zammaranoi

Uegitglanis zammaranoi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Siluriformes
Family:Clariidae
Genus:Uegitglanis
Gianferrari, 1923
Species: U. zammaranoi
Binomial name
Uegitglanis zammaranoi
Gianferrari, 1923

Uegitglanis zammaranoi is the only species of catfish (order Siluriformes) in the genus Uegitglanis of the family Clariidae.[2] It is endemic to Somalia, where it only occurs in caves near the Jubba and the Shebelle Rivers.[2][3] This species grows to about 10.1 centimetres (4.0 in) TL.[3]

U. zammaranoi is the sister group to Heteropneustes and the remaining clariids. The problematic relationship of this species to the rest of the family is due to the lack of a labyrinth organ that characterizes the family.[4]

There are two other cavefish species in Somalia: the cyprinids Barbopsis devecchi and Phreatichthys andruzzii.[5]

References

  1. ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Uegitglanis zammaranoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2006. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 5 August 2007.
  2. 1 2 Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
  3. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Uegiglanis zammaranoi" in FishBase. December 2011 version.
  4. ↑ Devaere, Stijn; Adriaens, Dominique; Teugels, Guy G.; Verraes, Walter (2005). "Morphology and spatial constraints in a dorso-ventrally flattened skull, with a revised species description of Platyallabes tihoni (Poll, 1944)". Journal of Natural History. 39 (19): 1653–1673. doi:10.1080/00222930400020103.
  5. ↑ Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768


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