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Kneria wittei Poll, 1944

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Congo (Kinshasa) country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
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Uses: live export: yes;
Comments: Known from the Lukuga (Ref. 45485, 89080) and its affluents, the Lubilaye (Tanganyika affluent south of Kalemie) (Ref. 36901), upper Lualaba (Ref. 2970, 45434, 89082) and the Luanza (lower Luapula drainage, upper Congo River basin) (Ref. 36901, 89082). Also Ref. 2970.
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/cg.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Poll, M., 1944
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Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | Catalog of Fishes(Släkte, Arter) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Gonorynchiformes (Milkfishes) > Kneriidae (Shellears)
Etymology: Kneria: From Kner, that studied fishes in the Imperial Museum of Vienna, with Jean Natterer (1817) (Ref. 45335);  wittei: Dedicated to M.G.F. De Witte, whose Kneriidae specimens, collected in Katanga, have allowed to resolve the generic status of Kneria and Xenopomatichthys (Ref. 89080).
  More on author: Poll.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ekologi


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