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🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreAfrican sharptooth catfish
Large airbreathing catfish farmed across Africa and AsiaCatfish · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇼 Botswana and 1 moreAfrican tigerfish
Predatory freshwater fish known for sharp teeth and leaping hunting behaviour.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1861
🇸🇳 Senegal and 3 moreWest African lungfish
Air-breathing freshwater fish from AfricaAncient · Rivers and lakes
🇳🇬 NigeriaGymnarchus
African electric fish with a long dorsal fin used for swimming and sensing prey.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1829
WorldLeopard bush fish
A freshwater labyrinth fish from the Congo River basin kept in home aquariums.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇸🇳 SenegalNile bichir
An ancient African fish with lungs and armour-like scales.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇬 UgandaNangnang fish
A small freshwater fish from the Nile basin, prized as a fried snack in Uganda.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇰🇪 Kenya and 4 moreRipon barbel
A large freshwater cyprinid from East African lakes and rivers.Carp · Rivers and lakes · 1900
Sub-Saharan AfricaSynodontis
A large African genus of spotted catfish known for squeaking sounds and belly-up swimming.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
WorldHaplochromis
A large ray-finned fish genus from East Africa known for rapid evolution and aquarium popularity.Cichlid · Rivers and lakes · 1888
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreWest Indian Ocean coelacanth
Rare deep-sea fish with blue scales and limb-like fins.Ancient · Deep sea · 1938
WorldFeatherbacks and knifefishes
Freshwater bony-tongued fishes with long anal finsOther · Rivers and lakes
🇸🇳 Senegal and 3 moreSenegal bichir
Ancient African fish that breathes air and walks on landAncient · Rivers and lakes
WorldAphyosemion
A large genus of small African killifish kept in home aquariums.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes
WorldMormyrus
A genus of weakly electric freshwater fish known for their elongated snouts.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇦🇴 Angola and 3 moreMarbled lungfish
African lungfish with the largest known animal genome, found in East and Central Africa.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
WorldNile perch
Large freshwater predator native to Africa, now invasive in many lakes.Other · Rivers and lakes
WorldLabeobarbus
A genus of mid-sized ray-finned fish widely distributed in eastern and southern Africa.Carp · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇯 Benin and 4 moreSaddled bichir
A large African freshwater fish with primitive lungs and multiple dorsal finlets.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1845
WorldBichir
Ancient African ray-finned fish with multiple dorsal finlets and lung-like air breathing organs.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Nile perch: Pavel Zuber, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African sharptooth catfish: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Saddled bichir: Studdart, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bichir: 5snake5, CC0, source
- African tigerfish: Totti, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gymnarchus: Wiki-Harfus ; modified by Wildfeuer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nile bichir: Boulenger, George Albert; Loat, L., Public domain, source
- Leopard bush fish: Zaire, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nangnang fish: Africalli, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Synodontis: Paweł Cieśla Staszek_Szybki_Jest, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ripon barbel: Georges Albert Boulenger, Public domain, source
- Haplochromis: User:Haplochromis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- West Indian Ocean coelacanth: sybarite48, CC BY 2.0, source
- West African lungfish: Gőtehal.jpg : Mathae derivative work: Bff, CC BY 2.5, source
- Featherbacks and knifefishes: Henry Sullivan Thomas, Public domain, source
- Aphyosemion: Violaine2, CC BY 3.0, source
- Mormyrus: MM. P. J. Smit & J. Green, Public domain, source
- Marbled lungfish: George Berninger Jr., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Labeobarbus: Brian.gratwicke, CC BY-SA 3.0, source