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Campylomormyrus orycteropus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Moelants, T. |year=2010 |title=Campylomormyrus orycteropus |volume=2010 |page=e.T182452A7887408 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T182452A7887408.en |access-date=13 November 2024}}

| taxon = Campylomormyrus orycteropus

| authority = Poll, J.-P. Gosse & Orts 1982

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Campylomormyrus orycteropus is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found only in Lake Mweru. It is native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{cite book|author=Gosse, J.-P. |year=1984|chapter=Mormyridae|pages=63–122|editor=J. Daget |editor2=J.-P. Gosse |editor3=D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde|title=Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA)|publisher=MRAC ORSTOM|volume=1}}

Size

This species reaches a length of {{convert|32.0|cm|in|abbr=on}}.{{FishBase |genus= Campylomormyrus |species= orycteropus| month = February | year = 2015}}

Etymology

The fish is named for the aardvark genus Orycteropus, referring to the aardvark-like shape of its snout.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/mormyridae/ | title = Family MORMYRIDAE Bonaparte 1831 (Elephantfishes) | access-date= 12 November 2024 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

References

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External links

  • {{cite journal |last1=Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. |title=Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. |journal=Scientific Data |date=2023 |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=892 |doi=10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 |pmid=38110417 |pmc=10728183 |bibcode=2023NatSD..10..892L |url=https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4}}

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Category:Mormyridae

Category:Taxa named by Max Poll

Category:Taxa named by Jean-Pierre Gosse

Category:Taxa named by Stéphane Orts

Category:Fish described in 1982

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