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Hi All,

We have and enterered in our database as being present in the Egombé river in Gabon. In the Bodies of Water table, the Egombé is a small location with no latitude/longitude data. Okay, that's fine but on a bigger picture I can't find any scientific validation for either of these species in anywhere named Egombé. As I update the species and attempt to put in bodies of water, I fell upon this challenge.

Besides checking https://www.gbif.org/, I also checked https://www.idigbio.org/portal/search, http://portal.vertnet.org/search, http://www.fishnet2.net/search.aspx, and https://freshwaterfishdata-dev.ird.fr/geography. I found nothing. I also searched Google scholar for any results mentioning the Egombé (or Egombe) and either Synodontis or Parauchenoglanis, and I obtained no hits.

Since these are the only two species assigned to the Egombé (and I'm not convinced they should be), and since the Egombé is so small it has no coordinates (thus it plots on Google maps out in the ocean), why do we have the Egombé as a listing?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers, Eric

My sources give Egombé as a stream with the coordinates 0°57'24"S 9°1'34"E.

Silurus wrote: ↑18 Nov 2024, 23:55 My sources give Egombé as a stream with the coordinates 0°57'24"S 9°1'34"E.

Thanks HH!

Yes, that's what I found also when I looked up its coordinates.

But that wasn't my main question. My question was about what's the basis for putting these fish in the Egombé? I can't find any literature documentation for either species there, nor can I find any references to them in the Egombé in the PCF forums.

Cheers,
Eric

This would have been input by @MatsP or Birger. It could be a mistake for Ogôoué but I think, looking at it, it appears to be bad data. I can't check book sources ATM but I'd go to Seegers and Poll to check if I could.

Cheers,

Jools