Mormyrus
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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 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
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