Malapterurus teugelsi

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Diallo, I. |date=2020 |title=Malapterurus teugelsi |volume=2020 |page=e.T182394A134951261 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T182394A134951261.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Malapterurus teugelsi

| 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 teugelsi is a species of electric catfish endemic to Guinea where it occurs in the Kogon River.{{FishBase species |genus= Malapterurus|species= teugelsi| month = December| year = 2011}} This species grows to a length of {{convert|21.2|cm|in}} SL.

The fish is named in honor of Belgian ichthyologist Guy Teugels (1954-2003), who as curator of fishes at the Musée Royale de l’Afrique Centrale, collected the type specimen.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/siluriformes8/ | title = Order SILURIFORMES: Families MALAPTERURIDAE, MOCHOKIDAE, SCHILBEIDAE, AUCHENOGLANIDIDAE, CLAROTEIDAE and LACANTUNIIDAE | access-date= 7 December 2021 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

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