Biology:Petrocephalus
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Petrocephalus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. All the fish species of this genus are endemic to Africa.[1]
Species

There are currently 48 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger, 1903
- Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 [3]
- Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage, 1883
- Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune, 1885
- Petrocephalus bane (Lacépède, 1803)
- Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin, 1924
- Petrocephalus boboto [Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 [3]
- Petrocephalus bovei (Valenciennes, 1847)
- Petrocephalus catostoma (Günther, 1866)
- Petrocephalus christyi Boulenger, 1920
- Petrocephalus congicus L. R. David & Poll, 1937
- Petrocephalus cunganus Boulenger, 1910
- Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger, 1906
- Petrocephalus frieli Lavoué, 2012 [4]
- Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra 1897)
- Petrocephalus grandoculis [Boulenger, 1920
- Petrocephalus guttatus Fowler, 1936
- Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger, 1912
- Petrocephalus hutereaui ([Boulenger,] 1913)
- Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger, 1901
- Petrocephalus leo Lavoué, 2016 [5]
- Petrocephalus levequei Bigorne & Paugy 1990
- Petrocephalus longianalis B. J. Kramer I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus longicapitis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus magnitrunci B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus magnoculis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus mbossou Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Petrocephalus microphthalmus Pellegrin, 1909
- Petrocephalus odzalaensis Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Petrocephalus okavangensis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus pallidomaculatus Bigorne & Paugy, 1990
- Petrocephalus pellegrini Poll, 1941
- Petrocephalus petersi B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus pulsivertens Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Petrocephalus sauvagii (Boulenger, 1887)
- Petrocephalus schoutedeni Poll, 1954
- Petrocephalus similis Lavoué, 2011 [7]
- Petrocephalus simus Sauvage, 1879
- Petrocephalus soudanensis Bigorne & Paugy, 1990
- Petrocephalus squalostoma (Boulenger, 1915)
- Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler, 1958
- Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger, 1909
- Petrocephalus sullivani Lavoué, C. D. Hopkins & Kamdem Toham 2004
- Petrocephalus tanensis Whitehead & Greenwood 1959 [6]
- Petrocephalus tenuicauda (Steindachner 1894)
- Petrocephalus valentini Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Petrocephalus wesselsi B. J. Kramer & van der Bank, 2000
- Petrocephalus zakoni [Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Specimens of Petrocephalus
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Petrocephalus in FishBase. January 2016 version.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Species in the genus Petrocephalus". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=species&genus=Petrocephalus.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lavoué, S.; Sullivan, J.P. (2014). "Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi, two new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae) from the Congo River basin". ZooKeys (400): 43–65. doi:10.3897/zookeys.400.6743. PMID 24843255. Bibcode: 2014ZooK..400...43L.
- ↑ Lavoué, S. (2012). "Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) of the Bangweulu-Mweru ecoregion (Luapula River system, Congo Basin), with the description of a new species". Journal of Natural History 46 (35–36): 2159–2178. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.708449. Bibcode: 2012JNatH..46.2159L.
- ↑ Lavoué, S. (2016). "Petrocephalus leo, a new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Oubangui River basin (Congo basin)". Zootaxa 4121 (3): 319–330. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.6. PMID 27395226.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Kramer, B.; Bills, R.; Skelton, P.; Wink, M. (2012). "A critical revision of the churchill snoutfish, genus Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Mormyridae), from southern and eastern Africa, with the recognition of Petrocephalus tanensis, and the description of five new species". Journal of Natural History 46 (35–36): 2179–2258. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.708452. Bibcode: 2012JNatH..46.2179K. https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25878/1/Kramer_et-al_2012.pdf.
- ↑ Lavoué, S. (2011). "A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon". Zootaxa 2934: 20–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2934.1.2.
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