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 ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae.

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)
• Boulenger 1898
  • Mormyrus caballus asinus Boulenger, 1915
  • Mormyrus caballus bumbanus Boulenger 1909
  • Mormyrus caballus caballus Boulenger 1898
  • Mormyrus caballus lualabae 1964
• Vinciguerra 1922 (Somali mormyrid)
• Mormyrus caschive Linnaeus 1758 (Eastern bottlenose elephant snout)
• T. R. Roberts & 1976 (Lower Congo River mormyrid)
• Pellegrin 1939
• Fowler 1919 (Liberian mormyrid)
• Valenciennes 1847 (Elephant snout)
• Mormyrus hildebrandti W. K. H. Peters 1882 (Hildebrandt's elephant-snout fish)
• T. R. Roberts & 1976 (Inga mormyrid)
• Forsskål 1775 (Elephant-snout fish)
• Castelnau 1861 (Western bottlenose mormyrid)
• Mormyrus longirostris W. K. H. Peters 1852 (Eastern bottlenose mormyrid)
• Mormyrus macrocephalus Worthington 1929 (largehead mormyrid)
• Günther 1866 (Niger mormyrid)
• (Bloch & J. G. Schneider 1801) (Egyptian trunkfish)
• Boulenger 1898
• Valenciennes 1847 (Senegal mormyrid)
  • Mormyrus rume proboscirostris Boulenger 1898
  • Mormyrus rume rume Valenciennes 1847
• T. R. Roberts 1989 (Bandama mormyrid)
• 1905
• Mormyrus tenuirostris W. K. H. Peters 1882 (Athi elephant-snout fish)
• Pellegrin 1938 (French Congo mormyrid)

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