Mormyrus

Mormyrus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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

There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:^[2][3]

• 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)
• Castelnau
  1861 (Western bottlenose mormyrid)
• Mormyrus longirostris W. K. H. Peters 1852 (Eastern bottlenose mormyrid)
• Worthington
  1929 (largehead mormyrid)
• Mormyrus macrophthalmus Günther 1866 (Niger mormyrid)
• 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

This section is an excerpt from Mormyridae § In culture.[edit]

The Medjed was a sacred fish in Ancient Egypt. At the city of Per-Medjed, better known as Oxyrhynchus, whose name means "sharp-nosed" after the fish, archaeologists have found fishes depicted as bronze figurines, mural paintings, or wooden coffins in the shape of fishes with downturned snouts, with horned sun-disc crowns like those of the goddess Hathor. The depictions have been described as resembling members of the genus Mormyrus.^[4]

References

1. S2CID 15603518
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2. ^ "Mormyridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
3. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Mormyrus in FishBase. June 2017 version.
4. ISBN 978-3-89646-674-7
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