Species that contain: Ctenopoma and kingsleyae [ 4 ] records

africanus, Anabas Vetterlein [R.] 1914:253, Fig. 4 [Wochenschrift für Aquarien- und Terrarienkunde v. 11 (13); ref. 21735] Niger. Syntypes: (several) whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Ctenopoma argentoventer (Ahl 1922) -- (Gosse 1986:404 [ref. 6194]). •? Synonym of Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther 1896. Current status: Synonym of Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther 1896. Anabantidae. Habitat: freshwater.

argentoventer, Anabas Ahl [E.] in Schreitmüller & Ahl 1922:266 [2] [Blätter für Aquarien- und Terrarienkunde v. 33 (no. 16); ref. 15389] Lower Niger. Holotype (unique): ZMB 20636. Type catalog: Paepke 1994:311-312 [ref. 21516]. Types mentioned: Paepke 1995:97 [ref. 21847]. On p. 2 of separate. Also appeared in Ahl 1923:184 [ref. 15393]. •Valid as Ctenopoma argentoventer (Ahl 1922) -- (Gosse 1986:404 [ref. 6194], Vierke 1986:44 [ref. 36452], Vierke 1988:67 [ref. 36453]). •Synonym of Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther 1896 -- (Lévèque et al. 1991:146 [ref. 31367], Norris in Lévêque et al. 1992:844 [ref. 21590], Norris & Douglas 1992:718 [ref. 19869]). Current status: Synonym of Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther 1896. Anabantidae. Habitat: freshwater.

breviventralis, Anabas Pellegrin [J.] 1939:377 [Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France v. 63 (no. 7) [for 1938]; ref. 17213] Congo River, Congo-Brazzaville. Holotype (unique): MNHN 1938-0031. Type catalog: Blanc 1963:71 [ref. 19851]. •Valid as Anabas breviventralis Pellegrin 1939 -- (Gosse 1986:404 [ref. 6194]). •Questionably a synonym of Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther 1896 -- (Norris & Douglas 1992:718 [ref. 19869]). Current status: Uncertain as Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther 1896. Anabantidae. Habitat: freshwater.

kingsleyae, Ctenopoma Günther [A.] 1896:270, Pl. 13 (fig. A) [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 17 (no. 100) (art. 37); ref. 14607] Kondo-Kondo, Ogowe River. Syntypes: BMNH 1896.5.5.30-32 (3). •Valid as Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther 1896 -- (Gosse 1986:407 [ref. 6194], Vierke 1986:48 [ref. 36452], Vierke 1988:75 [ref. 36453], Lévêque et al. 1989:123 [ref. 26480], Paugy & Bénech 1989:304 [ref. 26478], Norris & Teugels 1990:496 [ref. 15717], Paugy et al. 1990:343 [ref. 26477], Lévèque et al. 1991:146 [ref. 31367], Norris in Lévêque et al. 1992:844 [ref. 21590], Norris & Douglas 1992:719 [ref. 19869], Norris 2007:263 [ref. 30044] in "Ctenopoma", Pezold et al. 2016:106 [ref. 34870], Munene et al. 2021:25 [ref. 39283], Fermon et al. 2022:227 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Ctenopoma kingsleyae Günther 1896. Anabantidae. Distribution: Western-central Africa: Senegal south to Democratic Republic of Congo, including Congo River basin. Habitat: freshwater.