Erpetoichthys

E259590

fish genus taxon

Erpetoichthys is a genus of elongated, eel-like bichir fishes native to African freshwater habitats, best known for the ropefish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus).

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Erpetoichthys calabaricus	2
Erpetoichthys canonical	1

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fish genus ⓘ taxon ⓘ
belongsToGroup	bichirs ⓘ
class	Actinopterygii ⓘ
commonName	ropefish genus ⓘ
diet	carnivorous ⓘ invertebrates ⓘ small fish ⓘ
family	Polypteriformes ⓘ surface form: Polypteridae
finType	ray-finned ⓘ
genusOf	Erpetoichthys self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Erpetoichthys calabaricus
geographicDistribution	Central Africa ⓘ West Africa ⓘ
habitat	floodplains ⓘ freshwater ⓘ rivers ⓘ
hasAccessoryRespiration	yes ⓘ
hasBodyShape	eel-like ⓘ elongated ⓘ
hasCommonAquariumUse	yes ⓘ
kingdom	Animalia ⓘ
nativeTo	Africa ⓘ
notableSpecies	Erpetoichthys self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Erpetoichthys calabaricus
order	Polypteriformes ⓘ
phylum	Chordata ⓘ
reproduction	oviparous ⓘ
respiration	gills ⓘ
skeletonType	bony fish ⓘ
subfamily	Polypteriformes ⓘ surface form: Polypterinae
taxonRank	genus ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Erpetoichthys
Description of subject: Erpetoichthys is a genus of elongated, eel-like bichir fishes native to African freshwater habitats, best known for the ropefish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus).

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Polypteriformes → includesGenus → Erpetoichthys ⓘ

Erpetoichthys → genusOf → Erpetoichthys self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Erpetoichthys calabaricus

Erpetoichthys → notableSpecies → Erpetoichthys self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Erpetoichthys calabaricus