Polypterus senegalus Cuvier, 1829
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. <em>Déterville, Paris.</em> Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Polypteriformes
- family
- Polypteridae
- genus
- Polypterus
- species
- Polypterus senegalus
Name
- Synonyms
- Polypterus arnaudii Duméril, 1870
- Polypterus senagalus Cuvier, 1829
- Polypterus senegalensis Steindachner, 1870
- Polypterus senegalus meridionalis Poll, 1941
- Polypterus senegalus senegalus
- Homonyms
- Polypterus senegalus Cuvier, 1829
- Common names
- Adagba in Yoruba
- Adeke in Ewe
- Bichir in language.
- Deka in Irish
- Dégé in Ewe
- Gwando in Hausa
- Otel in language.
- Sanmeki in Ewe
- gray bichir in English
- gray bichir in English
- Otel in language.
- Adagba in Yoruba
- Adeke in Ewe
- Akata in language.
- Bichir in language.
- Deka in Irish
- Dégé in Ewe
- Gwando in Hausa
- Sanmeki in Ewe
Bibliographic References
- Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. [The Animal Kingdom, arranged according to its organization, to serve as a basis for the natural history of animals and as an introduction to comparative anatomy]. <em>Déterville, Paris.</em> Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406.
- Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
- Gosse, J.-P. / Lévêque, C., D. Paugy, and G. G. Teugels, eds., 1990: Chapter 5: Polypteridae. The Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes of West Africa, vol. 1. 79-87.
- Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
- Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: World Fishes Important to North Americans Exclusive of Species from the Continental Waters of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 21. 243.