Protopterus annectens (Owen, 1839)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Owen, R. 1839. On a new species of the genus Lepidosiren of Fitzinger and Natterer. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1: 27-32.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Dipneusti
- order
- Ceratodontiformes
- family
- Protopteridae
- genus
- Protopterus
- species
- Protopterus annectens
Name
- Synonyms
- Lepidosiren annectens Owen, 1839
- Lepidosiren tobal Castelnau, 1855
- Protopterus anguilliformis Owen, 1841
- Protopterus annectans (Owen, 1839)
- Protopterus annectens annectens
- Protopterus annectens brieni Poll, 1961
- Protopterus rhinocryptis Gray, 1850
- Rhinocryptis annectens (Owen, 1839)
- Homonyms
- Protopterus annectens (Owen, 1839)
- Common names
- West African lungfish in English
- African Lungfish in English
- Abiyeseni in language.
- Afrikanischer Lungenfisch in German
- Age in Ewe
- Ahe in Ewe
- Badami in Hausa
- Barko in Hausa
- Bodami in Hausa
- Bunyi N'gel in Kanuri
- Buryi Protopter in Russian
- Bénin'gal in Kanuri
- Bôda in Hausa
- Ebeshene in language.
- Ebii in Igbo
- Gaiwa in Hausa
- Gaiwa Chi Jikinki in Hausa
- Gôda in Hausa
- Juala in Hausa
- Kifi Ntabo in Hausa
- Kuta in Yoruba
- Longvis in Afrikaans
- Lungfish in English
- Mai Mama in Hausa
- Mamba in Swahili
- Maoundé in Bambara
- Mudfish in English
- Nsompo in language.
- Prapletwiec Brunatny a. Skrzelec in Polish
- Slamfisk in Swedish
- Tana Lungfish in English
- Touba in Wolof
- Vestafrikansk Lungefisk in Danish
- West African Lungfish in English
- Westafrikanischer Lungenfisch in German
- Wõndo in Bambara
Bibliographic References
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
- 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