Mochokidae

Zaire 1978Uganda 2005Upper Volta 1966Tanzania 1992
Blotched Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis nigriventris
(Mochokidae)
Fischer's Victoria Squeaker
Synodontis afrofischeri
(Mochokidae)
Upside-Down Catfish
Synodontis arnoulti
(Mochokidae)
Angel Squeaker
Synodontis angelicus
(Mochokidae)
People Republic of Congo 1977Upper Volta 1983Cote d'Ivoire 1986Cote d'Ivoire 1999
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis camelopardalis
(Mochokidae)
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis gambiensis
(Mochokidae)
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis koensis
(Mochokidae)
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis schall
(Mochokidae)
Burukina Faso 2001Ghana 2005Mali 1976Cote d'Ivoire 1986
Moustache Catfish
Hemisynodontis membranaceus
(Mochokidae)
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis ocellifer
(Mochokidae)
Mochokid Fish
Synodontis budgetti
(Mochokidae)
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis punctifer
(Mochokidae)
Sierra Leone 1991Ghana 1991Uganda 1985Upper Volta 1975
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis robbianus
(Mochokidae)
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis sorex
(Mochokidae)
Lake Victoria Squeaker
Synodontis victoriae
(Mochokidae)
Upsidedown Catfish
Synodontis voltae
(Mochokidae)
Mozambique 1984Burundi 1996Zambia 1983
Brown Squeaker
Synodontis zambezensis
(Mochokidae)
Cuckoo Catfish
Synodontis petricola
(Mochokidae)
Largespot Squeaker
Synodontis macrostigma
(Mochokidae)
Togo 2011Russia 1998
Lace Catfish
Synodontis nigrita
(Mochokidae)
Hybrid Featherfin Catfish
Synodontis galinae
(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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