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Mormyridae
Mormyrops caballus Pellegrin, 1927
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West-central Africa.
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 26 - 35; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 39 - 45
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Maximum size: 460 mm SL
46.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 2915))
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Max size 486 mm SL.
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Characterized by long narrow chin which looks like that of a horse. The head narrows from the gills to the snout. Interorbital space narrow (head length/width of interorbital space 9.5-17.5). Eyes situated dorsally. LS/body depth 6.3-7.9. Color uniformly dark.
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One of two very elongate Mormyrops with non-tubular snouts in Lower Guinea (depth more than 5.9 times into SL). The other, M. breviceps, is distinguished from M. caballus by the wider head profile when viewed from above. The ratio of the HL to interorbital width is 10–18 compared to 9 in M. breviceps (see BIGORNE, 1987).
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demersal; freshwater
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EOD has a duration of less than 0.5 millisecond with three phases to the waveform. The polarity is inverted, as in Mormyrops zanclirostris, suggesting that the electrocytes are type Pp (penetrating stalks with posterior innervation).
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Not Evaluated
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