Mottled bichir
(Polypterus weeksii)
Classification
Species:
Polypterus weeksii
Genus:
Polypterus - Bichirs
Family: Polypteridae - Bichirs
Order: Polypteriformes - Bichirs
Class: Cladistii - Bichirs
Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes
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)