Smallmouth Electric Catfish
Malapterurus microstoma Poll & Gosse, 1969
Also calledKleiner Zitterwels (deu) · pasumec maloústý (ces)
First described in: Poll, M.; Gosse, J.-P. (1969). Révision des Malapteruridae (Pisces, Siluriformes) et description d'une deuxième espèce de silure électrique: Malapterurus microstoma sp. n. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.</em> 45 (38): 1-12, 1 tab., Pls. 1-3.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Malapterurus microstoma in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2342042.