Malapterurus punctatus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Diouf, K. |date=2020 |title=Malapterurus punctatus |volume=2020 |page=e.T181584A134951566 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T181584A134951566.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Malapterurus punctatus

| authority = Norris, 2002{{cite journal|last1=Norris|first1=Steven Mark|title=A revision of the African electric catfishes, family Malapteruridae (Teleostei, Siluriformes), with erection of a new genus and descriptions of fourteen new species, and an annotated bibliography. l|journal=Annalen van het museum voor Midden-Afrika (serie Zoölogie)|date=2002|volume=289|pages=1-155|publisher=Royal Museum for Central Africa|location=Tervuren, Belgium.|issn=1781-1104}}

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Malapterurus punctatus is a species of electric catfish native to Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.{{FishBase species |genus= Malapterurus|species= punctatus| month = December| year = 2011}} This species grows to a length of {{convert|21.49|cm|in}} SL.