Campylomormyrus

<i>Campylomormyrus</i>

Campylomormyrus

Genus of ray-finned fishes

Campylomormyrus is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae.[1]

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Species

Several Campylomormyrus species and their electric organ discharges

There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:.[1][2][3]

  • Campylomormyrus alces (Boulenger 1920) (Stanley Falls elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus bredoi (Poll 1945) (Mweru elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus cassaicus (Poll 1967) (donkey-faced elephant nose)
  • Campylomormyrus christyi (Boulenger 1920) (Christy's elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus compressirostris (Pellegrin 1924)[4]
  • Campylomormyrus curvirostris (Boulenger 1898) (Matadi elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus elephas (Boulenger 1898) (elephant-trunk mormyrid)
  • Campylomormyrus luapulaensis (L. R. David & Poll 1937) (Kabunda elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus mirus (Boulenger 1898) (Upoto elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus numenius (Boulenger 1898) (Upoto elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus orycteropus Poll, J. P. Gosse & Orts 1982 (Pweto elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus phantasticus (Pellegrin 1927) (fantastic elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus rhynchophorus (Boulenger 1898) (double-trunk elephant nose)
  • Campylomormyrus tamandua (Günther 1864) (Worm-jawed elephantfish)
  • Campylomormyrus tshokwe (Poll 1967) (Dundo elephantfish)

References

  1. [1]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Campylomormyrus in FishBase. January 2016 version.
  2. [2]
    "Mormyridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  3. [3]
    POLL, Max, GOSSE, Jean-Pierre & ORTS, Stéphane (1982). Le genre Campylomormyrus Bleeker, 1874. Étude systématique et description d'une espèce nouvelle (Pisces, Mormyridae). - Bull. Inst. roy. Sci. nat. Belg., 54, Biol. (5): 34 pp., 2 fig., 13 pl
  4. [4]
    Lamanna F, Kirschbaum F, Ernst AR, Feulner PG, Mamonekene V, Paul C, Tiedemann R (2016). "Species delimitation and phylogenetic relationships in a genus of African weakly-electric fishes (Osteoglossiformes, Mormyridae, Campylomormyrus)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 101: 8–18. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.035. PMID 27143239.


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