@article {662, title = {Morphometric synthesis of Pollimyrus (Teleostei, Mormyridae) with the description of four new species}, journal = {Journal of Fish Biology}, volume = {2024}, year = {2024}, month = {Nov-24-2024}, pages = {1-47}, abstract = {

Mormyridae, a species-rich family endemic to Africa, remains taxonomically understudied. This has been the case for the genus Pollimyrus Taverne, 1971, which hinders further understanding of the distribution, ecology, and conservation of its species. Therefore, an in-depth morphometric comparison of all currently valid species is carried out using most of the available type specimens. Species delineations were re-evaluated, and four species new to science described: Pollimyrus ibalazambai sp. nov. (the Luki River, the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Pollimyrus krameri sp. nov. (the Lugenda River, Mozambique), Pollimyrus vanneeri sp. nov. (the Kouilou-Niari River, the Republic of the Congo), and Pollimyrus weyli sp. nov. (the Buzi River, Mozambique). In this study, Pollimyrus guttatus is confirmed to belong to Pollimyrus, whereas Pollimyrus eburneensis and Cyphomyrus plagiostoma seem more similar to species allocated to other genera. No or only little morphological differences were found between the type series of several species, which could indicate the need for synonymization of these species (Pollimyrus cuandoensis with Pollimyrus marianne and Pollimyrus nigripinnis with Pollimyrus pulverulentus). As such 20 species are currently morphologically identifiable in the genus Pollimyrus. The present study highlights the critical need for further synthetic efforts and new collecting efforts across Africa for this and other Mormyridae genera.

}, keywords = {morphology, Pollimyrus ibalazambai sp. nov., Pollimyrus krameri sp. nov., Pollimyrus vanneeri sp. nov., Pollimyrus weyli sp. nov., Taxonomy}, issn = {0022-1112, 1095-8649}, doi = {10.1111/jfb.15983}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15983}, author = {Dierickx, Katrien and Wamuini Lunkayilakio, Soleil and Bills, Roger and Vreven, Emmanuel} } @article {458, title = {More new fishes from the Kasai District of the Belgian Congo}, journal = {American Museum Novitates}, volume = {723}, year = {1934}, month = {8 May 1934}, pages = {1{\textendash}6}, type = {taxonomic report}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

A number of small fishes collected in 1932 by Callewaert, at Luluabourg in the Kasai District of the Belgian Congo, were overlooked when the remainder of his collection made at that time was studied and reported on. Their examination, just completed, adds 20 forms to the 42 from the locality previously enumerated in The American Museum of Natural History\&$\#$39;s collections: namely, 5 mormyrids, 4 characins, 2 cyprinids of which 1 is a Barbus, 5 catfishes, 3 cichlids, 1 Anabas. Our complete collections from the locality now number, 62 species: in percentages, 21 mormyrids, 14 1/2 characins, 35 catfishes, 5 Barbus, 6 1/2\  cichlids, and 18 otherwise distributed; characins, catfishes and cichlids being somewhat closer to figures for the Congo than were those reported for the incomplete Luluabourg collections in 1933. The following new species are included: Marcusenius maculipinnis, Heterobranchus platycephaius, Euchilichthys boulengeri, and Steatocranus nelongatus.

}, issn = { 0003-0082}, doi = { http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/4609/1//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0723.pdf}, url = {http://bionames.org/references/bae56de4b8deb2370183321f00d6e687}, author = {Nichols, J.T. and La Monte, F.R. and Callewaert, R.} }