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Bathyclarias atribranchus

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ2232796 ↗
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Bathyclarias atribranchus is a species of airbreathing catfish endemic to Lake Malawi, in the countries of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. This species grows to a length of 60 cm (23.6 in) TL.

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bathyclarias atribranchus". FishBase. December 2011 version.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bathyclarias atribranchus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.