Polypteridae

Neumann, Dirk, Obermaier, Henriette & Moritz, Timo, 2016, Annotated checklist for fishes of the Main Nile Basin in the Sudan and Egypt based on recent specimen records (2006 - 2015), Cybium 40 (4), pp. 287-317 : 293

Polypteridae

Polypterus bichir Lacepède, 1803 seems so be the only species that occurs far north of Khartoum; it was formerly even recorded from the delta ( Harrington, 1899), but it is threatened or already extirpated in the Egyptian Nile and Nile Delta ( Bishai and Khalil, 1997). Polypterus endlicherii Heckel, 1847 is apparently rare north of Khartoum; it is not mentioned in Bishai and Khalil (1997) and might be restrict- ed to the White Nile. Bailey (1994) gives a rather generic account only on family level without referring to the distribution of single species (Annexe 3).