Biology:Mormyrus
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Short description: Genus of ray-finned fishes
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Subfamily: | Mormyrinae |
| Genus: | Mormyrus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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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]
Species
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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 caballus asinus Boulenger, 1915
- Mormyrus caballus bumbanus Boulenger 1909
- Mormyrus caballus caballus Boulenger 1898
- Mormyrus caballus lualabae Reizer 1964
- 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)
In culture
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". Brain Research Reviews 6 (1): 25–46. doi:10.1016/0165-0173(83)90003-6. PMID 6616267. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25137/1/0000573.pdf.
- ↑ "Mormyridae". http://deeplyfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Family-Mormyridae-PDF.pdf.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Mormyrus in FishBase. June 2017 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q48466 entry
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