Mormyrus

Mormyrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Osteoglossiformes
Family:	Mormyridae
Subfamily:	Mormyrinae
Genus:	Mormyrus; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Mormyrodes Gill 1862; Mormyrus (Scrophicephalus) Swainson 1838; Scrophicephalus (Swainson 1838); Solenomormyrus Bleeker 1874;

Mormyrus is a genus of fish in the Mormyridae family.

Species

Mormyrus caballus (above), Mormyrus rume (below)

Mormyrus hasselquistii (above), Mormyrus niloticus (below)

There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:^[1]^[2]

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 felixi Pellegrin 1939
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)

References

↑ "Mormyridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). Species of Mormyrus in FishBase. June 2017 version.

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[1] "Mormyridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Retrieved 18 May 2017.

[fishbase-2] Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). Species of Mormyrus in FishBase. June 2017 version.