buthupogon, Clarias Sauvage [H.-E.] 1879:96 [7] [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 3; ref. 3881] Ogooué River at Doumé, Gabon. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-0896. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:141 [ref. 29155]. On p. 7 of separate. •Valid as Clarias buthupogon Sauvage 1879 -- (Teugels 1986:74 [ref. 6193], Teugels 1986:80 [ref. 12548], Burgess 1989:146 [ref. 12860], Paugy & Bénech 1989:302 [ref. 26478], Teugels in Lévêque et al. 1992:486 [ref. 21590], Agnèse & Teugels 2001:685 [ref. 25481], Agnèse & Teugels 2005:552 [ref. 28553], Ferraris 2007:141 [ref. 29155], Teugels et al. 2007:681 [ref. 30030], Hanssens 2009:31 [ref. 30167], Skelton 2019:229, 234 [ref. 36564], Kiselkewa et al. 2020:[10] 709 [ref. 38315], Stiassny et al. 2021:1687 [ref. 39000], Fermon et al. 2022:151 [ref. 39448], Bernt & Stiassny 2022:13 [ref. 39552], Abwe et al. 2023:31 [ref. 39992]). Current status: Valid as Clarias buthupogon Sauvage 1879. Clariidae. Distribution: Western-central Africa: coastal rivers from Nigeria to central and upper Congo River system (Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Angola). Habitat: freshwater.