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Mormyrus  Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 649792

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderOsteoglossomorpha   
                            OrderOsteoglossiformes  – bonytongues  
                               SuborderOsteoglossoidei   
                                  SuperfamilyMormyroidea   
                                     FamilyMormyridae  – elephant fishes, mormyrids  
                                        GenusMormyrus Linnaeus, 1758  
    Direct Children:  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus bernhardi Pellegrin, 1926  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus caballus Boulenger, 1898  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus casalis Vinciguerra, 1922  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus caschive Linnaeus, 1758  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus cyaneus Roberts and Stewart, 1976  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus felixi Pellegrin, 1939  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus goheeni Fowler, 1919  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus hasselquistii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1847  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus iriodes Roberts and Stewart, 1976  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus kannume Forsskål, 1775 – elephant-snout fish 
                                           SpeciesMormyrus lacerda Castelnau, 1861 – bottle-nose, ndikusi, western bottlenose mormyrid 
                                           SpeciesMormyrus longirostris Peters, 1852 – amalompi, bottle-nose, eastern bottlenose mormyrid, hotama 
                                           SpeciesMormyrus macrocephalus Worthington, 1929  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus macrophthalmus Günther, 1866  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus niloticus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801)  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus ovis Boulenger, 1898  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus rume Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1847  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus subundulatus Roberts, 1989  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus tapirus Pappenheim, 1905  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus tenuirostris Peters, 1882  
                                           SpeciesMormyrus thomasi Pellegrin, 1938  
       

 References
       
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  Source: Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/   
  Reference for: Mormyrus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Daget, J., J. -P. Gosse, and D. F. E. Thys van den Audenaerde, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1984   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Check-List of Freshwater Fishes of Africa. vol. 1   
  Page(s): 410   
  Publisher: ORSTOM   
  Publication Place: Paris, France   
  ISBN/ISSN: 2-87177-002-6   
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  Reference for: Mormyrus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Eschmeyer, William N., ed.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Catalog of Fishes   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3   
  Page(s): 2905   
  Publisher: California Academy of Sciences   
  Publication Place: San Francisco, California, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-940228-47-5   
  Notes: Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932   
  Reference for: Mormyrus   
       

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