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Clariidae (Airbreathing catfishes)
Etymology: Clariallabes: Latin, clarias, -a, -um = shining + Greek, allabes, -etos = a fish of the Nile, a kind of lamprey (Ref. 45335); mutsindoziensis: From the type locality, Mutsindozi River (Ref. 26960).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; acqua dolce demersale. Tropical
Africa: known from the Mutsindozi River, an affluent of the Malagarasi, in Burundi (Ref. 26960, 78218).
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 11.8 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 26960)
Found over sand and mud bottoms (Ref. 26960, 78218). Voracious species, feeds on insects and insect larvae (Coleoptera and other unidentified larvae) (Ref. 26960). Insects and insect larvae have been found in stomach (Ref. 78218).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Riproduzione | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larve
Taverne, L. and L. De Vos, 1998. Clariallabes mutsindoziensis (Teleostei: Clariidae), nouveau silure du bassin de la Malagarasi (bassin du lac Tanganyika), Burundi. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 8(3):211-220. (Ref. 26960)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Endangered (EN) (B1ab(i,ii,iii)+2ab(i,ii,iii)); Date assessed: 31 January 2006
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00741 (0.00333 - 0.01648), b=2.97 (2.78 - 3.16), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.2 ±0.40 se; based on food items.
Resilienza (Ref.
120179): Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).