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Mastacembelus ellipsifer
Species of fish / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mastacembelus ellipsifer is a species of spiny eel that is endemic to Lake Tanganyika in Africa and sometimes kept in aquariums. Although sometimes called the Tanganyikan spiny eel,[3] it is only one of fifteen spiny eel species in the Tanganyikan basin (fourteen endemic).[4][5]
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Mastacembelus ellipsifer | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Synbranchiformes |
Family: | Mastacembelidae |
Genus: | Mastacembelus |
Species: | M. ellipsifer |
Binomial name | |
Mastacembelus ellipsifer Boulenger, 1899 | |
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