Mormyrus
Mormyrus is a genus of fish in the family Mormyridae.
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Mormyrus caballus (above), Mormyrus rume (below)
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Mormyrus hasselquistii (above), Mormyrus niloticus (below)
There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:[1][2]
- Mormyrus bernhardi Pellegrin 1926 (Bernhard's elephant-snout fish)
- Mormyrus caballus Boulenger 1898
- Mormyrus casalis Vinciguerra 1922 (Somali mormyrid)
- Mormyrus caschive Linnaeus 1758 (Eastern bottlenose elephant snout)
- Mormyrus cyaneus T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart 1976 (Lower Congo River mormyrid)
- Mormyrus felixi Pellegrin 1939
- Mormyrus goheeni Fowler 1919 (Liberian mormyrid)
- Mormyrus hasselquistii Valenciennes 1847 (Elephant snout)
- Mormyrus hildebrandti W. K. H. Peters 1882 (Hildebrandt's elephant-snout fish)
- Mormyrus iriodes T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart 1976 (Inga mormyrid)
- Mormyrus kannume Forsskål 1775 (Elephant-snout fish)
- Mormyrus lacerda Castelnau 1861 (Western bottlenose mormyrid)
- Mormyrus longirostris W. K. H. Peters 1852 (Eastern bottlenose mormyrid)
- Mormyrus macrocephalus Worthington 1929 (largehead mormyrid)
- Mormyrus macrophthalmus Günther 1866 (Niger mormyrid)
- Mormyrus niloticus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider 1801) (Egyptian trunkfish)
- Mormyrus ovis Boulenger 1898
- Mormyrus rume Valenciennes 1847 (Senegal mormyrid)
- Mormyrus rume proboscirostris Boulenger 1898
- Mormyrus rume rume Valenciennes 1847
- Mormyrus subundulatus T. R. Roberts 1989 (Bandama mormyrid)
- Mormyrus tapirus Pappenheim 1905
- Mormyrus tenuirostris W. K. H. Peters 1882 (Athi elephant-snout fish)
- Mormyrus thomasi Pellegrin 1938 (French Congo mormyrid)
References
- "Mormyridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Mormyrus in FishBase. June 2017 version.
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