Mormyrops Müller 1843
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Specimen Records:23
Specimens with Sequences:27
Specimens with Barcodes:23
Species:6
Species With Barcodes:6
Public Records:8
Public Species:5
Public BINs:4
Mormyrops:
Mormyrops is a genus of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae from freshwater in Africa. They are characterized by an elongate head measuring twice as long as high, and no teeth on the palate or the tongue.[1] The genus includes the largest member of the mormyrid family, the cornish jack (Mormyrops anguilloides) at up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length.[2]
Species[edit]
- Mormyrops anguilloides (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cornish jack)
- Mormyrops attenuatus Boulenger, 1898
- Mormyrops batesianus Boulenger, 1909
- Mormyrops breviceps Steindachner, 1894
- Mormyrops caballus Pellegrin, 1927
- Mormyrops citernii Vinciguerra, 1912
- Mormyrops curtus Boulenger, 1899
- Mormyrops curviceps Román, 1966
- Mormyrops engystoma Boulenger, 1898
- Mormyrops furcidens Pellegrin, 1900
- Mormyrops intermedius Vinciguerra, 1928
- Mormyrops lineolatus Boulenger, 1898
- Mormyrops mariae (Schilthuis, 1891)
- Mormyrops masuianus Boulenger, 1898
- Mormyrops microstoma Boulenger, 1898
- Mormyrops nigricans Boulenger, 1899
- Mormyrops oudoti Daget, 1954
- Mormyrops parvus Boulenger, 1899
- Mormyrops sirenoides Boulenger, 1898
References[edit]
- ^ Günther, A. (1866). Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. The Trustees.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). Species of Mormyrops in FishBase. July 2014 version.
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