Lake Victoria squeaker [SEP] parent taxon
Lake Victoria squeaker
The Lake Victoria squeaker ("Synodontis victoriae") is a species of upside-down catfish that is native to Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda where it is found in Lakes Kioga and Victoria and the Victorian Nile the lower Kagera River and the Malagarasi River drainage. It was first described by British-Belgian zoologist George Albert Boulenger in 1906, from specimens collected in the Lake Victoria at Buganga, Uganda and Entebbe, Uganda by Mr. E. Degen. The species name "victoriae" is derived from
procatopus" was described from the Amala River, which was mistakenly believed to be to the east of Lake Baringo. The Ripon barbel does not occur there, and the taxon was thus thought to refer to "Labeobarbus intermedius". But the Amala is actually a tributary of the Mara River, where "L. altianalis" is found, and "L. procatopus" is thus a junior synonym of it.
Distribution and ecology.
The Ripon barbel inhabits Lake Victoria and its drainage basin and surrounding areas in the East African