Doumea

Doumea
Doumea typica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Amphiliidae
Subfamily: Doumeinae
Genus: Doumea
Sauvage, 1879
Type species
Doumea typica
Sauvage, 1879

Doumea is a genus of loach catfishes native to Africa.

Species of Doumea have a rather large and tapered body, a pointed head, and a thin caudal peduncle. Thin bilateral osseous peaks are sometimes present on the back and the belly, and are the precursors series of osseous plates observed in the other kinds of Doumeinae. By the shape of the body, these fish are adapted to rapids.[1]

Species

There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. Skelton, Paul H. (1992). "Amphiliidae (French)" (PDF). Faune des poissons d'eaux douces et saumâtres d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Tome 2. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique and O.R.S.T.O.M., Paris, France, 902. pp. 450–467.
  2. Ferraris, Jr., C.J. & Vari, R.P. (2014): New Species of Doumea (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae) from Coastal River Basins of the Republic of the Congo. Copeia, 2013 (4) [2014]: 577-581.
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