Mottled bichir
(Polypterus weeksii)
General data
Scientific names:
Mottled bichir
Habitat:
Freshwater
Climates:
Tropical, Arid (desert)
Native:
Africa
Distribution:
Congo River
Polypterus weeksii, the mottled bichir, is a fish in the family Polypteridae found in the central basin of the Congo River.
It grows to about 54 cm in head-to-tail length.
Named in honor of John Henry Weeks (1861-1924), Baptist missionary, ethnographer, explorer and diarist, who collected type at his mission station in Monsembe, upper Congo River, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
