Petrocephalus

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Petrocephalus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. All the fish species of this genus are endemic to Africa.[1]

Petrocephalus
Two species of Petrocephalus (above)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Osteoglossiformes
Family:Mormyridae
Subfamily:Petrocephalinae
Genus:Petrocephalus
Marcusen, 1854
Type species
Mormyrus bane
Lacépède, 1803

Species

Cladistics of Petrocephalus

There are currently 46 recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger 1903 (Agberi mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué & Sullivan 2014 [3] (Arnegard mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage 1883 (Ogooue River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune 1885 (Churchill snoutfish)
  • Petrocephalus bane (Lacépède, 1803)
  • Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin 1924 (Ikengo mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus boboto Lavoué & Sullivan 2014 [3] (Boboto mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus bovei (Valenciennes 1847) (baby whale)
  • Petrocephalus catostoma (Günther 1866) (Churchill)
  • Petrocephalus christyi Boulenger 1920 (Lindi mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus congicus L. R. David & Poll 1937 (Mukishi River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus cunganus Boulenger 1910 (Cuanza River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger 1906 (Katonga River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus frieli Lavoué 2012 [4] (Luapula River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra 1897) (Ganana River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus grandoculis Boulenger 1920
  • Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger 1912
  • Petrocephalus hutereaui (Boulenger 1913) (Uele mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger 1901 (Fashoda mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus leo Lavoué, 2016 [5] (Kotto elephantfish)
  • Petrocephalus levequei Bigorne & Paugy 1990 (Sierra Leone elephantfish)
  • Petrocephalus longianalis B. J. Kramer I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Lufubu River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus longicapitis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Katima Mulilo mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus magnitrunci B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Okavango mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus magnoculis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Cunene River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus mbossou Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Mbossou mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus microphthalmus Pellegrin 1908 (smallhead mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus odzalaensis Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Odzala mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus okavangensis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Thoage River mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus pallidomaculatus Bigorne & Paugy, 1990 (Bamako mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus pellegrini Poll 1941 (Nuon mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus petersi B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Zambezi mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus pulsivertens Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Odzala mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus sauvagii (Boulenger 1887) (Sauvage's mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus schoutedeni Poll 1954 (Yangambi mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus similis Lavoué 2011 [7] (Sanaga mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus simus Sauvage 1879 (roundnose mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus soudanensis Bigorne & Paugy 1990 (Loutou mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus squalostoma (Boulenger 1915) (Lukinda mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler 1958 (Msola mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger 1909 (Kingani mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus sullivani Lavoué, C. D. Hopkins & Kamdem Toham 2004 (Sullivan's mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus tanensis Whitehead & Greenwood 1959 [6] (Tana-churchill)
  • Petrocephalus tenuicauda (Steindachner 1894) (Junk mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus valentini Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Lekoli mormyrid)
  • Petrocephalus wesselsi B. J. Kramer & van der Bank 2000 (Southern Churchill)
  • Petrocephalus zakoni Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Zakon mormyrid)


References


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