Biology:Mormyrus

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Short description: Genus of ray-finned fishes

Mormyrus
Mormyrus.jpg
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Osteoglossiformes
Family: Mormyridae
Subfamily: Mormyrinae
Genus: Mormyrus
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Mormyrodes Gill 1862
  • Mormyrus (Scrophicephalus) Swainson 1838
  • Scrophicephalus (Swainson 1838)
  • Solenomormyrus Bleeker 1874

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

Mormyrus caballus (above), Mormyrus rume (below)
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 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

Wikidata ☰ Q48466 entry