Mormyrus
Mormyrus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. They are weakly electric, enabling them to navigate, to find their prey, and to communicate with other electric fish.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Subfamily: | Mormyrinae |
| Genus: | Mormyrus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Species
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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:[2][3]
- 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
- Bullock, Theodore H.; Bodznick, D. A.; Northcutt, R. G. (1983). "The phylogenetic distribution of electroreception: Evidence for convergent evolution of a primitive vertebrate sense modality" (PDF). Brain Research Reviews. 6 (1): 25–46. doi:10.1016/0165-0173(83)90003-6. hdl:2027.42/25137. PMID 6616267. S2CID 15603518.
- "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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