Clarias Scopoli 1777 (catfish)
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Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Parent taxon: Clariidae according to P. C. Sereno et al. 2008
See also Woodward 1901
Sister taxon: Heterobranchus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (7 collections), Egypt (38), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (34), Niger (3), Sudan (2), Tanzania (15), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (3), Malawi (1), Tanzania (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Tanzania (5)
• Miocene of Kenya (3), Saudi Arabia (2), the United Arab Emirates (1)
Total: 128 collections including 130 occurrences
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