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The Mormyroidea (synonymy: Mormyriformes) are a superfamily (formerly an order) of fresh water fishes endemic to Africa that, together with the families Hiodontidae, Osteoglossidae, Pantodontidae and Notopteridae, represents one of the main groups of living Osteoglossiformes. [1]
The Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" (more properly freshwater elephantfish), are a superfamily of weakly electric fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa. [1] It is by far the largest family in the order, with around 200 species.
P. Paramormyrops; Paramormyrops hopkinsi; Peters's elephantnose fish; Petrocephalinae; Petrocephalus; Petrocephalus ansorgii; Petrocephalus arnegardi; Petrocephalus ...
Campylomormyrus christyi is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, is found in Africa: in the lower Congo, the Pool Malebo, Kasai and the Lukenie River in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Bronze figurine of Oxyrhynchus fish, Late Period-Ptolemaic Egypt 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 ...
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The subfamily Mormyrinae contains all but one of the genera of the African freshwater fish family Mormyridae in the order Osteoglossiformes.They are often called elephantfish due to a long protrusion below their mouths used to detect buried invertebrates that is suggestive of a tusk or trunk (some such as Marcusenius senegalensis gracilis are sometimes called trunkfish though this term is ...
Mormyrus longirostris, commonly referred as the eastern bottle-nosed mormyrid, is a medium-sized ray-finned fish species belonging to the family Mormyridae.It was originally described by Wilhelm Peters in Monatsberichte der Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1852.