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Peters's elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is an African freshwater elephantfish in the genus Gnathonemus. Other names in English include elephantnose fish, long-nosed elephant fish, and Ubangi mormyrid, after the Ubangi River. The Latin name petersii is probably for the German naturalist Wilhelm Peters.
The elephantfish are a diverse family, with a wide range of different sizes and shapes. The smallest are just 5 cm (2.0 in) in adult length, while the largest reach up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft).
The blunt-jawed elephantnose or wormjawed mormyrid (Campylomormyrus tamandua) is a species of elephantfish. [2] It is found in rivers in West and Middle Africa. [3] It is brown or black with a long elephant-like snout with the mouth located near the tip.
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)
US distribution of longnose gar Mark Catesby, The Green Gar Fish (Esox osseus), published 1731–1743.An eighteenth-century print with Linnaeus' original name for the longnose gar.
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Alepisaurus ferox, also known as the long snouted lancetfish, longnose lancetfish, or cannibal fish, is a species of lancetfish found in the ocean depths down to 1,830 m (6,000 ft). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This species grows to 215 cm (85 in) in total length and a weight of 9 kg (20 lb).
It is a moderately large fish, growing to a maximum known length of 72 cm and 4.35 kg. The longnose trevally is a predatory fish, consuming small fish, crustaceans and molluscs . The species is of minor commercial importance throughout its range, and is considered to be a good table fish .