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Oxymormyrus Boulengeri
''Oxymormyrus'' is a small genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae. Its members reach about in length and are restricted to the Congo, Campo, Kouilou-Niari, Nyanga and Ogowe river basins in Middle Africa. Taxonomy and species The validity of this genus is disputed. Catalog of Fishes only includes one species, while a second (marked with a star* in the list) occasionally has been included. Both these are placed in '' Mormyrops'' by FishBase. * '' Oxymormyrus boulengeri'' ( Pellegrin, 1900) (Alima River mormyrid) * ''Oxymormyrus zanclirostris ''Oxymormyrus'' is a small genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae. Its members reach about in length and are restricted to the Congo, Campo, Kouilou-Niari, Nyanga and Ogowe river basins in Middle Africa. Taxonomy and species The ...''* ( Günther, 1867) (Pool elephantfish) References Weakly electric fish Mormyridae Ray-finned fish genera {{Osteoglossiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Bleeker
Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877. Life and work Bleeker was born on 10 July 1819 in Zaandam. He was employed as a medical officer in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army from 1842 to 1860, (in French). stationed in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). During that time, he did most of his ichthyology work, besides his duties in the army. He acquired many of his specimens from local fishermen, but he also built up an extended network of contacts who would send him specimens from various government outposts throughout the islands. During his time in Indonesia, he collected well over 12,000 specimens, many of which currently reside at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. Bleeker corresponded with Auguste Duméril of Paris. His wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalog Of Fishes
Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer. The taxonomy maintained by the Catalog of Fishes is considered authoritative and it is used as a baseline reference for instance by the broader global fish database FishBase, which involves cross-references to the Catalog's information for all accepted taxa. , the searchable catalogue contains entries for about 58,300 fish species names, about 33,400 of which are currently accepted (valid), and for some 10,600 genera (5,100 valid). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia (Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''". He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook of zoology for students of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxymormyrus Zanclirostris .
* '' Oxymormyrus boulengeri'' ( ''Oxymormyrus'' is a small genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae. Its members reach about in length and are restricted to the Congo, Campo, Kouilou-Niari, Nyanga and Ogowe river basins in Middle Africa. Taxonomy and species The validity of this genus is disputed. Catalog of Fishes only includes one species, while a second (marked with a star* in the list) occasionally has been included. Both these are placed in '' Mormyrops'' by FishBase FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Pellegrin
Jacques Pellegrin (12 June 1873, Paris – 12 August 1944) was a French zoologist. In Paris, he worked under zoologist Léon Vaillant (chair of reptiles and fishes) at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle''. From 1897, Pellegrin served as ''préparateur'' at the museum. He obtained doctorates in medicine (1899) and science (1904), and in 1908 was named as an assistant director. After many missions abroad, he became sub-director of the museum in 1937, and replaced Louis Roule (1861–1942) as the chairperson of herpetology and ichthyology. He published over 600 scientific books and articles and discovered around 350 new species. He named a number of fishes from the family Cichlidae, such as the genera '' Astatoreochromis'', '' Astatotilapia'', '' Boulengerochromis'', ''Lepidiolamprologus'', ''Nanochromis'' and '' Ophthalmotilapia''. Taxa named in his honor He has the following species named in his honor: * The Clingfish '' Apletodon pellegrini'' * ''Enteromius pelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxymormyrus Boulengeri
''Oxymormyrus'' is a small genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae. Its members reach about in length and are restricted to the Congo, Campo, Kouilou-Niari, Nyanga and Ogowe river basins in Middle Africa. Taxonomy and species The validity of this genus is disputed. Catalog of Fishes only includes one species, while a second (marked with a star* in the list) occasionally has been included. Both these are placed in '' Mormyrops'' by FishBase. * '' Oxymormyrus boulengeri'' ( Pellegrin, 1900) (Alima River mormyrid) * ''Oxymormyrus zanclirostris ''Oxymormyrus'' is a small genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae. Its members reach about in length and are restricted to the Congo, Campo, Kouilou-Niari, Nyanga and Ogowe river basins in Middle Africa. Taxonomy and species The ...''* ( Günther, 1867) (Pool elephantfish) References Weakly electric fish Mormyridae Ray-finned fish genera {{Osteoglossiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FishBase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web.Marine Fellow: Rainer Froese ''Pew Environment Group''. Over time it has "evolved into a dynamic and versatile ecological tool" that is widely cited in scholarly publications. FishBase provides comprehensive species data, including information on , geographical distribution, and |
Mormyrops
''Mormyrops'' is a genus of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae from freshwater in Africa. They are characterized by an elongate head measuring twice as long as high, and no teeth on the palate or the tongue. The genus includes the largest member of the mormyrid family, the cornish jack (''Mormyrops anguilloides'') at up to in length. Taxonomy and species According to FishBase, there are currently 21 recognized species in this genus. One of these (marked with one star* in list) is often placed in its own genus '' Oxymormyrus'' instead, and yet another (marked with two stars**) has occasionally also been placed in that genus. * '' Mormyrops anguilloides'' (Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ... 1758) (Cornish jack) * '' Mormyrops attenuatus'' Bou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormyrus Zanclirostris
''Mormyrus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. Species There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus: * '' Mormyrus bernhardi'' Pellegrin 1926 (Bernhard's elephant-snout fish) * ''Mormyrus caballus'' Boulenger 1898 ** ''Mormyrus caballus asinus'' Boulenger, 1915 ** ''Mormyrus caballus bumbanus'' Boulenger 1909 ** ''Mormyrus caballus caballus'' Boulenger 1898 ** ''Mormyrus caballus lualabae'' Reizer 1964 * ''Mormyrus casalis'' Vinciguerra 1922 (Somali mormyrid) * ''Mormyrus caschive'' Linnaeus 1758 (Eastern bottlenose elephant snout) * ''Mormyrus cyaneus'' T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart 1976 (Lower Congo River mormyrid) * ''Mormyrus felixi'' Pellegrin 1939 * ''Mormyrus goheeni'' Fowler 1919 (Liberian mormyrid) * ''Mormyrus hasselquistii'' Valenciennes 1847 (Elephant snout) * ''Mormyrus hildebrandti'' W. K. H. Peters 1882 (Hildebrandt's elephant-snout fish) * ''Mormyrus iriodes'' T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart 1976 (Inga mormyrid) * ''Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormyridae
The Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" (more properly freshwater elephantfish), are a Mormyridae (superfamily) , family of Electric fish , weakly electric freshwater fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa. It is by far the largest family in the order with around 200 species. Members of the family can be popular, if challenging, aquarium species. These fish are also known for having large brain size and unusually high Animal cognition , intelligence. They are not to be confused with the marine and brackish-water Callorhinchidae , callorhinchid elephantfish (family Callorhinchidae) of Southern Hemisphere oceans. Description and biology The elephantfish are a diverse family, with a wide range of different sizes and shapes. The smallest are just in adult length, while the largest reach up to . They do, however, have a number of unique features in common. Firstly, their cerebellum is greatly enlarged, enabling them to interpret complex bio-electrical signals. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Africa
Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions. Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe are members of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). Six of those states (the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) are also members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) and share a common currency, the Central African CFA franc. The African Development Bank defines Central Africa as the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Middle Africa is an analogous term used by the United Nations in its geoscheme for Africa. It includes the same countries as the African Development Bank's definition, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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