MochokidaeMochokidae| Zaire 1978 | Upper Volta 1966 | Cote d'Ivoire 1986 |
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| Blotched Upsidedown Catfish Synodontis nigriventris (Mochokidae) |
Upside-Down Catfish Synodontis arnoulti (Mochokidae) |
Upsidedown Catfish Synodontis koensis (Mochokidae) |
| Cote d'Ivoire 1999 | Burukina Faso 2001 | Mali 1976 | Cote d'Ivoire 1986 |
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| Upsidedown Catfish Synodontis schall (Mochokidae) |
Moustache Catfish Hemisynodontis membranaceus (Mochokidae) |
Mochokid Fish Synodontis budgetti (Mochokidae) |
Upsidedown Catfish Synodontis punctifer (Mochokidae) |
| Upper Volta 1975 | Mozambique 1984 | Zambia 1983 |
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| Upsidedown Catfish Synodontis voltae (Mochokidae) |
Brown Squeaker Synodontis zambezensis (Mochokidae) |
Largespot Squeaker Synodontis macrostigma (Mochokidae) |
Upsidedown catfish lives only in Africa and has a rare habit to swim with the abdomen as the top. Upsidedown catfish swims by the zero gravity upside down to swim in response to light. In correspondence with swimming upside down, the body color of upsidedown catfish is reversed to that of common fish. Upsidedown catfish tend after all it apply mind to driftwood and a rock, the backside of the water herb, and to hide and am active lively in the daytime in the night. In the catfish of the Mochokidae living in the lake Tanganyika, there is a catfish called Cuckoo Catfish. When a kind of Cichlidae lays eggs and holds an egg in a mouth, it let one's egg lose in the midst of the confusion.
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