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Habitat: This species, is the smaller of three from the same African genus of C. Teugels, Risch, De Vos & Thys, 1991. The other two being Anaspidoglanis akiri (Risch 1987) and Anaspidoglanis boutchangai (Thys van den Audenaerde 1965). It was a member of the African-Asian Bagridae family until 1991 when Mo split it up and constructed a new family, Claroteidae, which is closely related to the Bagrids. Aquarium Care: This African bagrid is a night time predator so tank mates would need to be at least over 3 ins (7cm) to escape its clutches. Tank mates could include the larger African Characins such as the Congo Tetras (Phenacogrammus interruptus) and the larger American Characins such as from the Distichodus genera. Larger Barbs like the Tinfoil Barb (Barbus schwanefeldi) could be a good choice. Alternately, you could house one in a cichlid community as long as it is not a Rift Valley set-up as the higher p.H. may prove a bit too high over a long period of time. Try to keep less bottom dwellers with a Dwarf Giraffe Catfish as they are quite territorial and need their own hiding niche such as a rock/slate shelter so it can rest up during the day. Etymology: The genus name Notoglanidium: otos, back, presumably referring to “rather long” dorsal fin of N. walkeri; glanidium, diminutive of glanis, sheatfish (Silurus glanis), now used as a general term for catfish. The specific name macrostoma: from the Greek makros, meaning long and stoma, meaning mouth; in reference to the size of the mouth. Remarks: This species has been put into a new genus, Notoglanidium, from the former Anaspidoglanis.

Dwarf Giraffe Catfish

Parauchenoglanis macrostoma, Auchenoglanis macrostoma, Parauchenoglanis ansorgei, Parauchenoglanis ansorgii, Anaspidoglanis macrostoma

Auchenoglanididae

Africa: S. Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo River system. Type locality: Ngomo (Ogôoué) [Gabon].

24.0cm. (9ins)

23-27°C (73-81°F)

6.5-8.0.

Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
ScotCat Factsheet no. 092. Feb. 2004.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.