Bathyclarias

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Bathyclarias foveolatus.jpg

| image_caption = Bathyclarias foveolatus

| taxon = Bathyclarias

| authority = P. B. N. Jackson, 1959

| type_species = Clarias longibarbis

| type_species_authority = Worthington, 1933

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

See text.

}}

Bathyclarias is a genus of airbreathing catfish endemic to Lake Malawi in Africa.Anseaume, L.; and G.G. Teugels (1999). On the rehabilitation of the clariid catfish genus Bathyclarias endemic to the East African Rift Lake Malawi. Fish Biology 55(2): 405–419. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1999.tb00687.x Several are components of local commercial fisheries.

Species

There are currently contains eight recognized species:{{FishBase genus | genus = Bathyclarias| month = December | year = 2011}}

References