Mormyrus
{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}}
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| taxon = Mormyrus
| authority = Linnaeus, 1758
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 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. They are weakly electric, enabling them to navigate, to find their prey, and to communicate with other electric fish.{{cite journal |last1=Bullock |first1=Theodore H. |author1-link=Theodore Holmes Bullock |last2=Bodznick |first2=D. A. |last3=Northcutt |first3=R. G. |date=1983 |title=The phylogenetic distribution of electroreception: Evidence for convergent evolution of a primitive vertebrate sense modality |journal=Brain Research Reviews |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=25–46 |doi=10.1016/0165-0173(83)90003-6 |pmid=6616267 |hdl=2027.42/25137 |s2cid=15603518 |url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25137/1/0000573.pdf |hdl-access=free }}
Species
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There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:{{Cite web|title=Mormyridae |url=http://deeplyfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Family-Mormyridae-PDF.pdf |website=Deeplyfish- fishes of the world|access-date=18 May 2017}}{{FishBase genus | genus = Mormyrus| month = June | year = 2017}}
- 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 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)
In culture
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Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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Category:Ray-finned fish genera
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