Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Mormyroidea (synonymy: Mormyriformes) are a superfamily (formerly an order) of fresh water fishes endemic to Africa that, together with the families Hiodontidae, ...
The Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" (more properly freshwater elephantfish), are a superfamily of weakly electric fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa. [1]
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Mormyridae (superfamily)
P. Paramormyrops; Paramormyrops hopkinsi; Peters's elephantnose fish; Petrocephalinae; Petrocephalus; Petrocephalus ansorgii; Petrocephalus arnegardi; Petrocephalus ...
The eggs, at around 4.7 or 5.4 mm (in two different populations), are the largest of any species in the Mormyroidea. [24] The sex ratio, biased in favour of males, may help to guarantee that the small number of large eggs are fertilised. Along with Pollimyrus, the genus is distinctive among the Mormyroidea in providing parental care to its ...
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 ...
Superfamily Mormyroidea. Family Gymnarchidae Bleeker 1859 (Aba, African Knifefish) Family Mormyridae Bonaparte 1832 (freshwater elephantfishes) Phylogeny.
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.