buettikoferi, Clarias Steindachner [F.] 1894:53, Pl. 3 (fig. 1) [Notes from the Leyden Museum v. 16 (nos 1-2, art. 1); ref. 4237] Buluma, Liberia. Holotype (unique): RMNH (whereabouts unknwn). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:141 [ref. 29155]. Species originally spelled as büttikoferi. Teugels 1986:88 [ref. 12548] is first reviser selecting buettikoferi over bulumae and liberiensis. •Valid as Clarias buettikoferi Steindachner 1894 -- (Teugels 1986:73 [ref. 6193], Teugels 1986:88 [ref. 12548], Burgess 1989:146 [ref. 12860], Lévêque et al. 1989:119 [ref. 26480], Paugy et al. 1990:340 [ref. 26477], Lévèque et al. 1991:143 [ref. 31367], Teugels in Lévêque et al. 1992:486 [ref. 21590], Agnèse & Teugels 2005:552 [ref. 28553], Ferraris 2007:141 [ref. 29155]). Current status: Valid as Clarias buettikoferi Steindachner 1894. Clariidae. Distribution: West-central Africa: Ivory Coast to Guinea Bissau. Habitat: freshwater.