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Scientific Name	**Uegitglanis zammaranoi** Gianferrari, 1923
Common Name
Type Locality	Pool in Uegit, El Uegit, Somalia.
Etymology	Eugit, a village in Southern Somalia and glanis, Greek for Catfish. In honour of the collector, an Italian army officer, Major Vittorio Tedesco Zammarano, who collected the first specimens.
Species Information
Size	101mm or 4" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
Identification	The absense of eyes,pigment and air-breathing structure all related to living in a cave-dwelling lifestyle sets this fish apart from most other clariids
Sexing	The genital papilla, which is right below the anus, is elongated and pointy in males while it is round and relatively larger (and larger than the anus) in females. In ventral view especially, females are much broader in the body than males of equal age and rearing practices.
General Remarks	Four collection points are known, quite distant from one another(about 130 km between Manas and Siggia) suggest the species habitat is a wide and continuous underground hydrographic system, with tunnels, fissures and cavities.
Habitat Information
Distribution	Africa: caves near the Uegit and the Uebi Scebeli rivers in Somalia. African Waters, Uebi Shebeli (click on these areas to find other species found there) Login to view the map.
IUCN Red List Category	Vulnerable , range map and more is available on the IUCN species page. Last assessed 2009.
Other Parameters	In the wild the physio-chemical features of the waters inhabited by the species show a wide variability, differences in water composition is clearly tolerated.
Husbandry Information
Feeding	Stenasellus pardii, a stygobitic isopod is thought to be the principal resource for wild fish. User data.
Breeding	Unreported in the aquarium. In the wild, reproduction is thought to occur between January and March, a period characterized by a hot dry climate, females with well-developed ovaries were collected only in March from a well in Manas.
Breeding Reports	There is no breeding report.
Further Information
Reference	Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano v. 62, pp 1, Pl. 1.
Registered Keepers	There is no registered keeper.
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Last Update	2025 Jan 01 11:57 (species record created: 2006 Dec 25 16:57)