Zaire 1978 | Uganda 2005 | Upper Volta 1966 | Tanzania 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 1977 | Upper Volta 1983 | Cote d'Ivoire 1986 | Cote 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 2001 | Ghana 2005 | Mali 1976 | Cote 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 1991 | Ghana 1991 | Uganda 1985 | Upper Volta 1975 |
Upsidedown Catfish Synodontis robbianus (Mochokidae) |
Upsidedown Catfish Synodontis sorex (Mochokidae) |
Lake Victoria Squeaker Synodontis victoriae (Mochokidae) |
Upsidedown Catfish Synodontis voltae (Mochokidae) |
Mozambique 1984 | Burundi 1996 | Zambia 1983 |
Brown Squeaker Synodontis zambezensis (Mochokidae) |
Cuckoo Catfish Synodontis petricola (Mochokidae) |
Largespot Squeaker Synodontis macrostigma (Mochokidae) |
Togo 2011 | Russia 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.