Paradoxoglanis cryptus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Moelants, T. |date=2010 |title=Paradoxoglanis cryptus |volume=2010 |page=e.T182721A7951895 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T182721A7951895.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Paradoxoglanis cryptus

| 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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Paradoxoglanis cryptus is a species of electric catfish endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it occurs in the Kagala River.{{FishBase species |genus= Paradoxoglanis |species= cryptus| month = August| year = 2014}} This species grows to a length of {{convert|11.9|cm|in}} SL.