The bony anatomy of chadian synodontis (Osteichthyes, Teleostei, Siluriformes, Mochokidae): Interspecific variations and specific characters;Anatomie osseuse de Synodontis du Tchad (Osteichthyes, Teleostei, Siluriformes, Mochokidae) : variabilité intra-spécifi que et caractéristiques spécifiques

Zoosystema

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-231

  Pinton, Aurélie ^a   Otero, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Chad; Mochokidae; Morphometry; Osteichthyes; Osteology; Siluriformes; Species identification; Synodontis; Teleostei

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955282996     PISSN: 12809551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5252/z2010n2a1     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. BLACHE J. 1964. - Les poissons du bassin du Tchad et du bassin adjacent du Mayo Kébi. Étude systématique et biologique. Mémoires Orstom 4, 483 p.
2. BRUNET M., BEAUVILAIN A., BILLIOU D., BOCHERENS H., BOISSERIE J.-R., DE BONIS L., BRANGER P., BRUNET A., COPPENS Y., DAAMS R., DEJAX J., DENYS C., DURINGER P., EISENMANN V., FANONÉ F., FRONTY P., GAYET M., GERAADS D., GUY F., KASSER M., KOUFOS G., LIKIUS A., LOPEZ-MARTINEZ N., LOUCHART A., MACLATCHY L., MACKAYE H. T., MARANDAT B., MOUCHELIN G., MOURER-CHAUVIRÉ C., OTERO O., PEIGNÉ S., PELAEZ CAMPOMANES P., PILBEAM D., RAGE J.-C., DE RUITTER D., SCHUSTER M., SUDRE J., TASSY P., VIGNAUD P., VIRIOT L. & ZAZZO A. 2000. - Chad: discovery of a vertebrate fauna close to the Mio-Pliocene boundary. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1: 205-209.
3. BURGESS W. E. 1989. - An Atlas of Freshwater and Marine Catfishes: a Preliminary Study of the Siluriforms. TFH publications, Neptun City, New Jersey, 784 p.
4. CHARDON M., PARMENTIER E. & VANDEWALLE P. 2003. - Morphology, development and evolution of the weberian apparatus in catfish, in ARRATIA G., KAPOOR B. G., CHARDON M. & DIOGO R. (eds), Catfishes. Science Publishers, Enfield, NH: 71-120.
5. DE PINNA M. C. C. 1993. - Higher-Level Phylogeny of Siluriformes, with a New Classification of the Order (Teleostei, Ostariophysi). Thesis, University of New York, USA, 482 p.
6. GAUDANT J. 1987. - A preliminary report on the osteichthyan fish-fauna from the Upper Neogene of Sahabi, Libya, in BOAZ N. T., EL-ARNAUTI A., GAZIRY A. W., HEINZELIN J. DE & BOAZ D. D. (eds), Neogene Paleontology and Geology of Sahabi. Alan Liss, New York: 91-100.
7. GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE É. 1809. - Poissons du Nil, de la mer Rouge et de la Méditerranée, in Description de l'Égypte, histoire naturelle. Paris: 1-52.
8. GOSSE J. P. 1986. - Mochokidae, in DAGET J., GOSSE J. P. & THYS VAN DEN AUDENAERDE D. F. E. (eds), Check-List of the Freshwater Fish of Africa. Volume 2. Musée royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren: 105-152.
9. GREENWOOD P. H. 1951. - Fish remains from Miocene deposits of Rusinga Island and Kavirondo Province, Kenya. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 (4): 1192-1201.
10. GREENWOOD P. H. 1972. - New fish fossils from the Pliocene of Wadi Natrum, Egypt. Journal of Zoology 168: 503-519.
11. GREENWOOD P. H. 1973. - Fish fossils from the Late Miocene of Tunisia. Notes du Service géologique de Tunisie 37: 41-72.
12. GREENWOOD P. H. & HOWES G. J. 1975. - Neogene fossil fishes from the Lake Albert-Lake Edward rift (Zaire). Bulletin of the Bristish Museum of Natural History, Geology, 26 (3): 69-126.
13. KOBLMÜLLER S., STRURMBAUER C., VERHEYEN E., MEYER A. & SALZBURGER A. 2006. - Mitochondrial phylogeny and phylogeography of East African squeaker catfishes (Siluriformes: Synodontis). BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 49.
14. LAUZANNE L. 1988. - Biologie et écologie des poissons d'eau douce africains, in LÉVÊQUE C., BRUTON M. N. & SSENTONGO G. W. (eds), Les habitudes alimentaires des poissons d'eau douce africains. Orstom, Bondy: 221-242.
15. MO T. 1991. - Anatomy, Relationships and Systematics of the Bagridae (Teleostei, Siluroidei), with a Hypothesis of Siluroid Phylogeny. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, 216 p.
16. MOSIMANN J. E. 1970. - Size allometry: size and shape variables with characterizations of the lognormal and generalized gamma distributions. Journal of American Statistician Association 65: 930-945.
17. OTERO O., PINTON A., MACKAYE H. T., LIKIUS A., VIGNAUD P. & BRUNET M. 2009. - First description of a Pliocene ichthyofauna from Central Africa (site KL2, Kolle area, Eastern Djurab, Chad): what do we learn? African Journal of Earth Science 54: 62-74.
18. OTERO O., PINTON A., MACKAYE H. T., LIKIUS A., VIGNAUD P. & BRUNET M. in press. - The fish assemblage associated with the Late Miocene Chadian hominid (site TM266, Toros-Menalla, Western Djurab), and its palaeoenvironmental signification. Paleontographica Acta.
19. PAUGY D. & ROBERTS T. 1992. - Mochokidae, in LÉVÊQUE C., PAUGY D. & TEUGELS G. G. (eds), Faune des poissons d'eaux douces et saumâtres d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Volume 2. MRAC, Tervuren; Orstom, Paris, collection faune tropicale: 500-563.
20. PINTON A., FARA E. & OTERO O. 2006. - Spine anatomy reveals the diversity of catfish through time: a case study of the genus Synodontis (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes). Naturwissenschaften 93 (1): 22-26.
21. POLL M. 1971. - Révision des Synodontis africains (famille Mochokidae). Annales du Musée royal d'Afrique Centrale (Zoologie), Tervuren, 497 p.
22. PRIEM R. 1920. - Poissons fossiles du Miocène d'Égypte (Burdigalien de Moghara, « Désert lybique »), in FOURTAU R. (ed.), Contribution à l'étude des Vertébrés miocènes de l'Égypte. Government Press, Cairo: 8-15.
23. SCHWARTZ H. L. 1983. - Paleoecology of Late Cenozoic Fish from the Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya. Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, 291 p.
24. STEWART K. M. 1990. - Fossil fish remains from the Lusso Formation, in BOAZ N.T. (ed.), Evolution of Environments and Hominidae in the African Western Rift Valley. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoirs 1: 141-163.
25. STEWART K. M. 2003a. - Fossils fish remains from Mio-Pliocene deposits at Lothagam, Kenya, in LEAKEY M. G. & HARRIS J. H. (eds), Lothagam, the Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa. Columbia University Press, New York: 79-111.
26. STEWART K. M. 2003b. - Fossils fish remains from the Pliocene Kanapoi site, Kenya, in HARRIS J. H. & LEAKEY M. G. (eds), Geology and vertebrate paleontology of the Early Pliocene site of Kanapoi, Northern Kenya. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 498: 21-38.
27. TAVERNE L. & ALOULOU-TRIKI A. 1974. - Étude anatomique, myologique et ostéologique du genre Synodontis Cuvier (Pisces: Siluriformes, Mochocidae). Annales du Musée royal d'Afrique Centrale (Zoologie), Tervuren, 69 p.
28. VAN COUVERING J. A. H. 1977. - Early record of freshwater fishes in Africa. Copeia 1: 163-166.
29. VAN NEER W. 1992. - New Late Tertiary fish fossils from the Sinda Region, eastern Zaire. African Study Monographs, supplementary issue 17: 27-47.
30. VAN NEER W. 1994. - Cenozoic fish fossil from the Albertine Rift Valley in Uganda, in SENUT B. & PICKFORD M. (eds), Geology and Palaeobiology of the Albertine Rift Valley, Uganda-Zaire, II: Palaeobiology. CIFEG occasional publications, Orléans: 89-127.
31. VIGLIOTTA T. 2008. - A phylogenetic study of the African catfish family Mochokidae (Osteichthyes, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a key to genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 157: 73-136.
32. VIGNAUD P., DURINGER P., MACKAYE H.T., LIKIUS A., BLONDEL C., BOISSERIE J.-R., DE BONIS L., EISENMANN V., GERAADS D., GUY F., LEHMANN T., LIHOREAU F., LOPEZ-MARTINEZ N., MOURER-CHAUVIRÉ C., OTERO O., RAGE J.-C., SCHUSTER M., VIRIOT L., ZAZZO A. & BRUNET M. 2002. - Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla fossiliferous area, Djurab Desert, Northern Chad. Nature 418 (6894): 152-155.