Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; Água doce demersal; potamódromo (Ref. 51243). Tropical
Africa: Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Volta and Chad basins. Sahelo-Soudanian basins and the coastal basins of the rivers Cavally, Bandama, Sassandra, Comoé, Mono, Ouémé, Ogun and Culufi; Congo basin. Two subspecies exist: Mormyrus rume rume: West Africa and Chad System; Mormyrus rume proboscirostris: middle and upper Congo River.
Comprimento de primeira maturação / Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturity: Lm ?, range 33 - ? cm
Max length : 100.0 cm SL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 31256); peso máx. publicado: 5.3 kg (Ref. 2915); idade máx. registrada: 6 anos (Ref. 2744)
Espinhos dorsais (total) : 0; Raios dorsais (total) : 72 - 95; Espinhos anais: 0; Raios anais : 16 - 21. Anal fin base 4.6-6.5x that of dorsal fin; 20-26 scales on caudal peduncle; body height 3.5-6.1x SL; height of caudal peduncle 1.3-3.0x of its length.
Affinities: look-alike of M. subundulatus and M. tapirus. Feeds on insects and larvae (Ref.13851). Generates electric organ discharge (EOD) of long duration that seems to correlate with territorial behavior of the species (Ref. 10460; 10601).
Bigorne, R., 1990. Mormyridae. p. 122-184. In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux saumâtres d'Afrique de l'Ouest. tome 1. Faune Trop. 28. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, and ORSTOM, Paris. (Ref. 2915)
Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435)
CITES (Ref. 128078)
Not Evaluated
Ameaça para os humanos
Harmless
Uso pelos humanos
Pescarias: espécies comerciais
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Estimates based on models
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01047 (0.00806 - 0.01360), b=2.82 (2.77 - 2.87), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref.
93245).
Nível Trófico (Ref.
69278): 2.5 ±0.86 se; based on food items.
Resiliência (Ref.
120179): Baixo, tempo mínimo de duplicação da população 4,5 - 14 anos (Assuming tm=5-10; Fec < 1,000).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): High to very high vulnerability (73 of 100).